Dr Chummer Farina

Dr Chummer Farina has been appointed executive director to Industry Canada’s expert panel on commercialization. Farina will be devoting most of his time to the panel, working with its secretary, ADM David Fransen. The panel has a deadline of late September to provide its recommendations on a federal commercialization strategy. Once the panel is concluded, Farina will return to his position as DG of Industry Canada’s industrial analysis branch....

Vancouver-based Neuromed Technologies Inc has strengthened its management team with appointments to three newly created positions. The new appointments are Dr Barry Sachais (VP clinical development), Sean Cunliffe (VP commercial development) and Dr Simon Li (VP medical research). The three seasoned executives will assist the privately held Neuromed in moving its target-specific calcium channel drugs through clinical trials and into the marketplace...