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Dr. Richard Scranton, M.D., M.P.H., is the President of Global Product Development and the Chief Medical Officer of Lyndra Therapeutics ( https://lyndra.com/ ), a company pioneering long-acting oral therapies, designed to deliver medicine for up to a week or longer in an oral form.

Dr. Scranton is responsible for advancing the company's proprietary LYNX™ drug delivery platform ( https://lyndra.com/platform/ ) and evolving and overseeing portfolio strategy, current and future product development from preclinical through commercialization, and external partnerships and alliances.

Dr. Scranton has 20+ years of expertise in pharmaco-epidemiologic research, clinical epidemiology, health services research and clinical trials research.

Prior to joining Lyndra, Dr. Scranton held roles with increasing responsibility at Pacira Pharmaceuticals, including Chief Medical Officer, where he led the global development and advancement of their non-opioid long-lasting injectable local anesthetic. Dr. Scranton also served as Chief Medical Officer at VeroScience, where his responsibilities included all aspects of clinical development, regulatory and pharmacovigilance of their investigational drugs in the metabolic disease and immunological domains.

Dr. Scranton also has served as instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate physician in the division of aging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, associate medical director and research consultant for Phase V Technologies, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a senior research fellow at the Massachusetts Veterans Administration Epidemiology, Research and Information Center (MAVERIC).

Dr. Scranton earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee and a Doctor of Medicine from the Quillen College of Medicine at Eastern Tennessee State University. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va, and served as chief resident. He completed his Harvard General Medicine Fellowship and received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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