How another company handled a failed topline resultSavara had the unfortunate experience of having to present failed trail data.
They went out and hired:
Savara Appoints Badrul Chowdhury, M.D., Ph.D as Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Chowdhury joins Savara from AstraZeneca, where he was Senior Vice President, Chief Physician-Scientist for Respiratory, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity Late Stage Development, in Biopharmaceuticals R&D. For 16 years prior to that, Dr. Chowdhury served as Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Rheumatology Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where he provided scientific and regulatory oversight of both common and rare diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythromatosis, and various autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
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For 16 years prior to that, Dr. Chowdhury served as Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Rheumatology Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) He presented at this Conference just three weeks later: