EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE-Amex: NBY) today announced that Roy J. Wu has joined the company as senior vice president for business development. Wu brings to NovaBay more than 30 years of highly successful experience in the pharmaceutical industry with increasingly responsible management positions in global business development, licensing, international marketing, project management, clinical development, and Pacific sector regulatory and pharmaceutical development.
Wu’s areas of expertise include product licensing and technology collaborations, strategic business planning, international marketing, new product planning, and international project management. He has extensive regulatory experience with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan. Among the many strengths Wu adds to NovaBay’s executive team is his deep understanding of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and of the International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH), which brings together the regulatory authorities of Europe, Japan and the United States and experts from the pharmaceutical industry in the three regions to discuss scientific and technical aspects of product registration.
Prior to Genelabs, Wu participated in the 1997 establishment of Kissei Pharma, the U.S. subsidiary of Kissei Pharmaceuticals Co. of Japan. Wu also was director of business development for Quintiles-BRI, a clinical research organization, after working for 16 years at Syntex Corporation. At Syntex, he held numerous positions with increasing responsibility, beginning as a chemist at the Syntex Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and culminating as director of R&D Program Planning and Management for the company’s Japanese subsidiary.
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