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Alan Higgins hired as Senior Director, Investigational Medicine, and Faye O'Brien as Senior Director, Healthcare Marketing
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Alan Higgins hired as Senior Director, Investigational Medicine, and Faye O'Brien as Senior Director, Healthcare Marketing
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC,June 2, 2003 -- Paradigm Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDGM) today announced the appointment of Alan J. Higgins, Ph.D., as Senior Director, Investigational Medicine, and Faye S. O'Brien as Senior Director, Healthcare Marketing.
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Higgins, who has more than 30 years experience directing drug discovery and development, and O'Brien, who brings nearly 15 years of biotech marketing and business development experience to Paradigm, will report to Tom Colatsky, Ph.D., Vice President of Healthcare Research.
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"Alan Higgins is a successful research director with a very strong business orientation.
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Dr. Higgins, whose main expertise is in metabolism and cardiovascular diseases, has successfully directed key pharmaceutical R&D programs for both large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.Most recently, he served as Senior Director, Pharmacology, for Nobex Corporation, a privately held, drug delivery company, where he successfully took a new development candidate to the IND stage within 12 months.Prior to Nobex, Dr. Higgins was Director of the Transcription Therapeutics SBU for Allelix Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., which merged with NPS Pharmaceuticals in 1999.He worked as Director, Pharmacology and Drug Development at Oncogene Science, Inc., where he directed major screening collaborations with Marion Merell Dow and Wyeth Ayerst.From 1988 to 1993, Dr. Higgins held various positions at Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., including Director, Metabolic Diseases Research, and Director, Cardiovascular and Neurobiology Research.He began his career at Pfizer Central Research in Kent, United Kingdom, beginning as an experimental scientist and reaching the level of Section Head, Discovery Biology.