What Happened?
Radnor, PA-based Zynerba has Appointed Suzanne M. Hanlon as Vice President of Human Resources
About the Company
Zynerba (NASDAQ: ZYNE) is dedicated to improving the lives of people with rare and near rare neuropsychiatric disorders where there is a high unmet medical need by pioneering the development and commercialization of next-generation pharmaceutically-produced cannabinoid therapeutics formulated for transdermal delivery. Cannabinoids interact with specific receptors throughout the body to produce pharmacologic effects, primarily in the CNS and immune systems. Transdermal delivery has the potential to reduce adverse effects associated with oral dosing because it allows the drug to be absorbed through the skin directly into the bloodstream, avoiding the gastrointestinal tract and lessening the opportunity for GI-related adverse events. It also avoids first-pass liver metabolism, potentially enabling lower dosage levels of active pharmaceutical ingredients with a higher bioavailability and an improved safety profile. Zynerba`s lead patent-protected product candidate in clinical development is ZYN002: ZYN002 is the first and only pharmaceutically-produced cannabidiol (CBD) formulated as a permeation-enhanced gel for transdermal delivery. Through a proprietary combination of our pharmaceutically-produced CBD and permeation enhancers, we believe we can effectively deliver CBD through the layers of the epidermis and into the circulatory system. The company is currently assessing ZYN002 in Fragile X syndrome and certain adult and pediatric refractory epilepsies. These include adult refractory focal epilepsy and developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE), a heterogeneous group of rare and ultra-rare epilepsy syndromes associated with severe cognitive impairment and behavioral disturbances.
About the Person
Suzanne M. Hanlon has served as our General Counsel and Vice President of Human Resources since October 2014. Ms. Hanlon is an accomplished attorney with 32 years of legal experience, particularly in public life sciences companies. She offers expertise in contracts, licensing, compliance, clinical trials, regulatory, litigation, intellectual property and employment law. Prior to joining Zynerba, she served as vice president, associate general counsel of NuPathe (NASDAQ: PATH), which was acquired by Teva Pharmaceuticals in February 2014. At NuPathe, she successfully led the intellectual property strategy and the contracts effort in addition to managing the human resources function and she partnered with senior management to complete a successful IPO. Previously, she was chief development counsel at Auxilium Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AUXL) and vice president of global contracts at Omnicare Clinical Research (NYSE: OCR). Ms. Hanlon received her JD degree from Villanova University School of Law and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American Corporate Counsel Association.
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