Appointments at Soligenx, Arno Therapeutics, Euthymics and Aeris Therapeutics – People on the move

Soligenx​, a biopharmaceutical firm that develops drugs that treat side-effects of cancer medications, has appointed Jerome Zeldis​, Celgene CEO, and Keith Brownlie​, a former partner at Ernst & Young, to its Board of Directors.

Arno Therapeutics​ has named Alexander Zukiwski​ as its CMO. Zukiwski, who was previously VP of clinical research and CMO at MedImmune, will be responsible for the development of Arno’s pipeline of cancer treatments.

Thomas Shea​ has joined neuroscience-focused drugmaker Euthymics Bioscience​ as CFO. He has previously worked as CFO of Tolerx and Cubist Pharmaceuticals.

Euthymics has also appointed Anne Combebias​ as senior director of clinical research and drug safety pharmacovigilance and Thomas Wilson​ as director of quality and analytical.

Aeris Therapeutics​ has named Dennis D’Oria​ as VP of international sales and marketing and Charles Carter​ as CFO. D’Oria and Carter join Aeris from CooperVision and Intelligent Medical Devices, respectively.

Curaxis Pharmaceutical​ has made changes to its board of directors. Timothy Wright​, former VP at Covidien, will become interim CEO and chairman joined by Terence Novak, Michael George, Michael Miller, Ivan Gothner and Stephen Leary. Current board members Bert Spilker and Judith Geaslen will continue to serve.

PharmacoFore ​has appointment of Joseph Stauffer​ as CMO and VP of corporate strategy and Narinder Banait as VP, Intellectual Property.

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Oramed Pharmaceuticals​ has appointed Michael Berelowitz​ as chairman of its scientific advisory board. Prior to joining Oramed Berelowitz was SVP and head of clinical development and medical affairs at Pfizer’s specialty care unit.

Anthony Maida III ​has joined the board of directors of OncoSec Medical​ as chair of its audit committee. Before joining OncoSec Maida was chairman of BioConsul Drug Development.

Crescendo Biologics​ has named Matthew Roe​ as CBO. He joins the firm from Genzyme where he was senior director of business development and licensing.