Agile Therapeutics, Inc Appoints Paul Korner to the Position of Chief Medical Officer
August 17, 2020 at 08:00 am EDT
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Agile Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Paul Korner, MD, MBA, to the position of Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Korner is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with more than 20 years of pharmaceutical and biotech industry experience, including significant experience within women's healthcare. He will be responsible for supporting the commercial launch of Twirla®, advancing the Company's internal pipeline and evaluating external growth opportunities. Dr. Korner will report to Al Altomari, Agile's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Korner has served in various leadership positions of increasing responsibility at several global companies focused on female reproductive health, including Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth Research, Bayer, and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. He currently serves on the Laidlaw Venture Partners Scientific Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of Voltron Therapeutics as an Independent Director.
Agile Therapeutics, Inc. is a women's healthcare company, which is engaged in fulfilling the unmet health needs of women. Its product and product candidates are designed to provide women with contraceptive options that offer freedom from taking a daily pill, without committing to a longer-acting method. Its initial product, Twirla, (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol), a transdermal system, is a non-daily prescription contraceptive. Twirla is based on its proprietary transdermal patch technology, called Skinfusion, which is designed to allow drug delivery through the skin. Twirla (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) transdermal system is a once-weekly combined hormonal contraceptive (CHC) patch that contains the active ingredients levonorgestrel (LNG), a type of progestin, and ethinyl estradiol (EE), a type of estrogen. Its potential product pipeline consists of two types of product candidates: a progestin-only (P-only) contraceptive patch and potential Twirla line extensions.