DANBURY, CT --(Marketwired - August 25, 2014) - Biodel Inc. (
"We are very pleased to have Gary join the Biodel team. His breadth of knowledge in the pharma and biotech industries, depth in financial and commercial operations, and experience in fund raising and business development will be valuable for Biodel as we move forward and establish the commercial and financing strategies for our Glucagon Emergency Management product candidate and our ultra-rapid-acting insulin programs," said Errol De Souza, president and chief executive officer of Biodel.
Mr. Gemignani has over 25 years of experience in accounting, strategic planning and financing in the life sciences industry and has held senior leadership and management roles at Novartis, Prudential Financial, Wyeth and Arthur Andersen. Mr. Gemignani was most recently with Champions Oncology where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President with responsibility for raising capital, investor relations and all financial operations. Prior to that, Mr. Gemignani was the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Coronado Biosciences Inc., responsible for financial operations, strategic planning and business development activities. He also served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial officer of Gentium S.P.A. where he successfully developed and initiated Named Patient and Cost Recovery programs, which allowed Gentium to sell its lead product candidate on a pre-approval basis. Mr. Gemignani received a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from St. Peter's College.
About Biodel Inc.
Biodel Inc. is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative treatments for diabetes that may be safer, more effective and more convenient for patients. Biodel's product candidates are developed by applying proprietary technologies to existing drugs in order to improve their therapeutic profiles. More information about Biodel is available at www.biodel.com .
Safe-Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include statements about future activities related to the clinical development plans for the company's drug candidates, including the potential timing, design and outcomes of clinical trials; and the company's ability to develop and commercialize product candidates. Forward-looking statements represent our management's judgment regarding future events. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, including statements regarding our strategy, future operations, future clinical trial results, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipates," "believes," "could," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," "potential," "predicts," "projects," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. The company's forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those described or implied in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the success of our product candidates, particularly our proprietary formulations of injectable insulin that are designed to be absorbed more rapidly than the "rapid-acting" mealtime insulin analogs presently used to treat patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and our glucagon presentation that is intended to treat patients experiencing severe hypoglycemia; our ability to conduct pivotal clinical trials, other tests or analyses required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to secure approval to commercialize a proprietary formulation of injectable insulin or a stable glucagon presentation; the success of our formulation development work with insulin analog-based formulations of a proprietary injectable insulin and a stable glucagon presentation; our ability to secure approval from the FDA for our product candidates under Section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; the progress, timing or success of our research, development and clinical programs, including any resulting data analyses; our ability to develop and commercialize a proprietary formulation of injectable insulin that may be associated with less injection site discomfort than Linjeta™ (formerly referred to as VIAject ® ), which is the subject of a complete response letter we received from the FDA; our ability to enter into collaboration arrangements for the commercialization of our product candidates and the success or failure of any such collaborations into which we enter, or our ability to commercialize our product candidates ourselves; our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others; the degree of clinical utility of our product candidates; the ability of our major suppliers to produce our products in our final dosage form; our commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategies; our ability to accurately estimate anticipated operating losses, future revenues, capital requirements and our needs for additional financing; and other factors identified in our most recent report on Form 10-Q for the first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2013. The company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of events occurring after the date of this press release.
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