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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.
"The addition of Roy Wu to NovaBay's executive team is a clear win for the company," said Ron Najafi, Ph.D., chairman and chief executive officer of NovaBay. "Roy is a seasoned industry veteran and his strong history of developing beneficial partnering and collaborative relationships will be extremely important for NovaBay as we advance our platform of anti-infective Aganocide(R) compounds for a broad range of clinical indications worldwide."
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.
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