SynAct Pharma AB announced the appointment of Kristen Harting, MD, as Chief Medical Officer (CMO), effective 15 February 2024. She will lead all clinical development and medical affairs and report to the CEO. Harting brings more than 30 years?

experience to the SynAct team and the company?s push to advance the lead drug candidate resomelagon and its TXP peptide agonists. Harting joins SynAct following more than three decades within big pharma and biotech as a chief medical officer. She has in-depth knowledge about development with comprehensive early and late clinical phase experience, including the approval of new medicines, combined with business insights.

Harting is currently CMO at both Alzinova and Tetra Pharm Technologies and is Medical & Compliance Manager at Sandoz. Kristen Harting earned her MD from the University of Copenhagen and her Executive MBA from the Copenhagen Business School.