R&D veteran joins Denmark's Lundbeck

22 January 2019
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Danish CNS specialist Lundbeck (LUND: CO) today announced that it has appointed Dr Johan Luthman as executive vice president and head of R&D.

Dr Luthman will assume his new role and join the executive management on March 1, 2019 and brings around 28 years of experience in pharmaceutical R&D.

Dr Luthman has been exposed to R&D management from companies, most recently at Eisai (TYO: 4523) in the USA, and previously at Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK) and AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN), and has taken through development of small molecules and biopharmaceuticals (MAb and protein therapeutics) programs in neuroscience (neurology, psychiatry, pain and ophthalmology), metabolic diseases and immunology and inflammation areas.

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