MedPharm Ltd Appoints Geoffrey Vernon As Chairman

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2006--UK-based topical pharmaceutical development specialist MedPharm Ltd today announced at BIO 2006 in Chicago that it has appointed Dr Geoffrey Vernon as Chairman. Dr Vernon is well respected in both the pharmaceutical industry and investor community with a distinguished international career, including senior roles at Schering and Ciba-Geigy, and in venture capital as a partner at Advent Ltd and an executive director at Rothschild Asset Management. Since 1998, he's been chairman of Ziggus Holdings which specialises in advising fast growing life science and biopharmaceutical companies. Founded in 1999, MedPharm itself has experienced a rapid period of growth, fuelled by strong revenue growth in contract formulation services. This has enabled the company to create its own portfolio of drug delivery systems and an internal drug development programme. Dr Vernon will be working with the Board and management to develop and implement the future growth strategies of the Company, which include raising funds to exploit these opportunities and to facilitate MedPharm's development as a specialist pharmaceutical company.

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