Peer Re­view: Leav­ing Cere­cor af­ter a year, Pe­ter Green­leaf starts a new CEO chap­ter at Au­rinia — out to slay Resta­sis

→ A year af­ter or­ches­trat­ing Su­cam­po Phar­ma’s sale to Mallinck­rodt, Pe­ter Green­leaf is still in hot de­mand. Au­rinia has poached him from the helm of Cere­cor, where he’s helped lay a foun­da­tion for a new pipeline for or­phan neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­ders in the past year.

At Au­rinia, the new CEO will shift gears to oph­thal­mol­o­gy and im­munol­o­gy as the Cana­di­an biotech launch­es an am­bi­tious chal­lenge to Al­ler­gan’s best-sell­ing dry eye drug Resta­sis. In a Phase II head-to-head read out weeks ago, Au­rinia’s vo­closporin demon­strat­ed a sta­tis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment on ef­fi­ca­cy com­pared to Resta­sis — a sur­pris­ing win on a sec­ondary end­point. The pri­ma­ry end­point of beat­ing the block­buster drug’s tol­er­a­bil­i­ty score was not met.

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