Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. Announces Executive Changes
October 02, 2020 at 10:32 am EDT
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Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. announced the promotion of Dr. Suresh Durgam to the position of Chief Medical Officer. Additionally, Dr. Andrew Satlin will step down as Chief Medical Officer, and will leave the Company effective October 28, 2020 to pursue a new opportunity. Dr. Durgam has served as Intra-Cellular Therapies Senior Vice President, Late Stage Clinical Development and Medical Affairs since joining the Company in 2018. He has been instrumental in the success of schizophrenia and bipolar depression programs. Dr. Durgam, has over 23 years of experience in clinical research which includes over 17 years in neuropsychiatric drug development, including the development of antipsychotics and antidepressants. Dr. Durgam served in clinical development leadership roles at Forest Laboratories, Solvay and Allergan plc. He led programs across various indications including major depressive disorder, bipolar mania, bipolar depression, schizophrenia, cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia, negative symptoms in schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and pain. He has experience in the U.S. and globally in all phases of drug development from Phase I through Phase 4 studies. In addition to his role in the development of cariprazine and its approval in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Dr. Durgam oversaw studies with vilazodone, levomilancipran, and asenapine that led to sNDA fillings and supplemental approvals. He also led the major depressive disorder program with rapastinel and onabotulinumtoxinA for depression.
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The Company leverages intracellular approach to develop treatments for people living with complex psychiatric and neurologic diseases. The Companyâs product, CAPLYTA (lumateperone), is an oral, once daily atypical antipsychotic approved in adults for the treatment of schizophrenia and the treatment of depressive episodes associated with bipolar I or II disorder (bipolar depression) as monotherapy and as adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate. Its pipeline includes several product candidates in clinical development and additional product candidates in non-clinical testing, such as ITI-1284-ODT-SL program, Phosphodiesterase type I inhibitor (PDE1) program, ITI-333 program, and ITI-1500 Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic program. ITI-1284 is a deuterated form of lumateperone, a new chemical entity.