Spinifex Pharmaceuticals Appoints Chief Medical Officer

05-Jun-2014 - Australia

Spinifex Pharmaceuticals announced that it has appointed Dr Ronald Marcus as Chief Medical Officer. Dr Marcus will be responsible for driving the development of Spinifex’s lead candidate EMA401 and the Company’s pre-clinical pipeline. He takes up his position immediately.

Dr Marcus has more than 20 years’ pharmaceutical clinical development experience. He joins Spinifex after a successful career at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), having held a number of senior leadership positions within BMS’s Neuroscience division.

Dr Marcus was most recently Executive Director, Neuroscience Global Clinical Research at BMS. In this role he was Early Development Team Leader for neuropathic pain, schizophrenia and migraine compounds and Life-Cycle Management (LCM) Team Leader for Abilify. He has extensive experience in early and late drug development process and possesses both breadth and depth in all of the key functional areas of exploratory and late development, disease biology and regulatory affairs. Dr Marcus has been recognized within industry for his excellence in overall drug development, innovative strategic leadership and executional excellence while spearheading an industry leading life cycle management program for Abilify. In addition to the approval of over 20 NDAs and sNDAs globally for Abilify, Dr Marcus also led the successful development of Serzone, an antidepressant.

Dr Marcus received a BA in Psychology from University of Virginia. He earned his medical degree from SUNY Buffalo and completed his Psychiatry residency and NIMH research fellowship at Cornell University, New York Hospital-Westchester Division. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications.

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