E-therapeutics Adds New Board Member
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Executive Summary
E-Therapeutics PLC. has appointed Trevor Mervyn Jones as non-executive director. Rajesh Chopra will be resigning as non-executive director to return to academic research. Currently Jones is chair of the international clinical research organisation (CRO), Simbec-Orion Group Ltd. and Welsh investment company, Arthurian Life Sciences Ltd. Previously he was director of Allergan Inc. and R&D director of The Wellcome Foundation and has also held advisory and regulatory roles. He was director general of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), board member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA). Jones was also a member of the UK government regulatory agency, The Medicines Commission for 12 years.
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