Speaking from the meeting, John Nemunaitis, Gradalis' chief medical officer and founder, said the full data from the Phase II trial, which is powered to enroll a total of about 60 patients, will be available in "eight or nine months

Colin Reisner, chief medical officer for Pearl, told BioWorld Today that the company completed its dose-ranging studies at the end of 2012 and has had discussions with the European Medicines Agency, Health Canada and the FDA, including an end-of-Phase-II meeting with the FDA

Michael Needle, chief medical officer of Array, told BioWorld Today that diagnosing is fairly straightforward with LGSOC, with its "relatively mature-looking cells, as opposed to the wildly anaplastic, ugly malignant cells

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Washington, named Paolo Baroldi senior vice president and chief medical officer

In a conference call late Monday afternoon, Patrice Rioux, Raptor's chief medical officer, said 40 patients who participated in Procysbi's Phase III trial have remained on the open-label extension – some for up to two years – with no unexpected severe adverse events

The pace of innovation in personalized medicine diagnostics is often slowed by the demands of clinical utility in FDA submissions," Tadd Lazarus, chief medical officer of Qiagen's Global Molecular Diagnostics Group, explained to BioWorld Today

And, of course, there are assays, but even if an assay "is extremely precise, the tumor is heterogenous," said Mohammad Azab, chief medical officer of fragment-based drug discovery firm Astex Pharmaceuticals Inc...The Needham, Mass.-based firm has generated buzz with its lead program, rindopepimut, an immunotherapy targeting epidermal growth factor variant III, in pivotal testing in glioblastoma multiforme, but the company's goal is really to combine several of its internal programs, said Tom Davis

BIND Therapeutics Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., named Gregory I. Berk chief medical officer

In the same 8-K filing disclosing the collaboration amendment, Affymax also reported the departure of directors and certain officers, including executive officers Anne-Marie Duliege, chief medical officer, and Karin Walker, vice president of finance and chief accounting officer

The company also disclosed the appointment of Stephen Shrewsbury as senior vice president of clinical development and chief medical officer (CMO

Biocartis SA, of Lausanne, Switzerland, named Stefan Scherer chief medical officer...Cell Medica Ltd., of London, appointed Kurt Gunter chief medical officer, Jeff Hammel chief financial officer and Ross Durland senior vice president development with global responsibility for product development

Ravi Anand, chief medical officer at Milan, Italy-based Newron told BioWorld International

Ravi Anand, chief medical officer at Milan, Italy-based Newron told BioWorld Today

has attracted Kurt Gunter, a leader of cell therapy in the U.S., to be its chief medical officer, in one of five senior appointments that will see the London-based company scaling up to a global operation

Cytori Therapeutics Inc., of San Diego, named Steven Kesten executive vice president and chief medical officer...Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Waltham, Mass., named Kim Brazzell chief medical officer

Repros Therapeutics Inc., of The Woodlands, Texas, appointed Joachim F. Wernicke chief medical officer

Chief Medical Officer Michael Sweeney pointed to improvements in the Patient Global Impression of Change scores and improvement in insomnia due to VMS

The 26-week multinational trials are designed to enroll approximately 700 patients each in more than 100 centers, according to Dana Hilt, EnVivo's senior vice president of clinical development and chief medical officer, with both evaluating two doses of EVP-6124 compared to placebo

But the postmarketing rate was "vastly different in terms of seriousness," noted Anne-Marie Duliege, chief medical officer