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Inhaled insulin developer Dance Biopharm has announced the appointment of former Novoclem Pharmaceuticals President and CEO Anne Whitaker as a Director and CEO as of October 1st, 2018. In addition to founding and heading up… Read more . . .
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Roivant, which recently acquired Patara Pharma’s cromolyn sodium inhalation solution for the treatment of chronic cough in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), has launched a company called Respivant to develop the drug. The new… Read more . . .
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Device developer Iconovo AB has announced the appointment of Mikael Ekström as its new VP, Development effective September 1, 2018. Ekström held various positions at AstraZeneca over a period of almost 30 years, most recently… Read more . . .
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Acorda Therapeutics has announced that Chief Technology Officer Rick Batycky is leaving the company as of August 20, 2018 to head up a new private biotech firm. Batycky co-founded Civitas Therapeutics, which was acquired by… Read more . . .
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Proveris Scientific Corporation has announced the appointment of John Masciola as VP of Product Development. Masciola was most recently Engineering Manager at Parker Precision Fluidics, and his experience in the life sciences industry includes positions… Read more . . .
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Cohero Health has announced 5 new hires “to scale for growth and drive commercial sales of its BreatheSmart platform.” In 2016, Cohero and H&T Presspart announced that they had partnered on development of an electronic… Read more . . .
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Savara has acquired rights to an amikacin/fosfomycin inhalation solution that was being developed by Cardeas Pharma for the treatment of ventilator associated pneumonia and has appointed former Cardeas Pharma CEO A. Bruce Montgomery as a… Read more . . .
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Intranasal drug developer Impel NeuroPharma has hired Lynn C. Gold as Senior VP of Regulatory Affairs, the company said. Gold was most recently VP of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at Camargo Pharmaceutical Services and had… Read more . . .
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Former Mylan Senior Director of Inhalation Biopharmaceutics Per Bäckman has joined Emmace Consulting as Senior Inhalation Consultant, the company has announced. Bäckman also previously held various positions at AstraZeneca, including as Principal Scientist in Inhalation… Read more . . .
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Galecto Biotech, which is developing an inhaled galectin-3 inhibitor for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), has hired former GSK VP and Head of the Fibrosis & Lung Injury Discovery Performance Unit Richard Marshall… Read more . . .

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