What Happened?
Miami, FL-based Opko Resigned Rulfo Hernandez as Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer and Global Corporate Controller
About the Company
Opko Health is a diversified healthcare company that seeks to establish industry leading positions in large, rapidly growing markets. Our diagnostics business includes BioReference Laboratories, the nation`s third largest clinical laboratory with a core genetic testing business and a 400 person sales and marketing team to drive growth and leverage new products, including the 4Kscore® prostate cancer test and the Claros® 1 in office immunoassay platform. Our pharmaceutical business features RAYALDEE, an FDA approved treatment for SHPT in stage 3-¬4 CKD patients with vitamin D insufficiency (launched in November 2016), VARUBITM for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (oral formulation launched by partner TESARO and IV formulation pending FDA approval), OPK88004, a once or twice weekly oxyntomodulin for type 2 diabetes and obesity, in Phase 2 clinical trials, among the new class of GLP-¬1 glucagon receptor dual agonists, and OPK88003, a selective androgen receptor modulator for benign prostatic hyperplasia (Phase 2). Our biologics business includes hGH-¬CTP, a once weekly human growth hormone in Phase 3 and partnered with Pfizer; and a long-¬acting Factor VIIa drug for hemophilia in Phase 2a.
About the Person
Rulfo Hernandez is Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer and Global Corporate Controller at Opko. Previously, Rulfo held various senior HR leadership roles in the industry.
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