Beth A. Burnside Ph.D. has served as our vice president pharmaceutical research since August 2003. Dr. Burnside joined us in August 2002 as senior director formulation development. From 1993 to 2002 Dr. Burnside was employed by Shire Laboratories Inc/Pharmavine. While at Shire she held management positions with increasing responsibilities in the pharmaceutics pharmaceutical development and the advanced drug delivery organizations. As vice president of the advanced drug delivery division Dr. Burnside assisted in the development of the division's specialized controlled release and enhanced bioavailability oral delivery formulation and product strategy. Prior to working at Shire Dr. Burnside gained additional experience at Johnson & Johnson from 1991 to 1992 and at Schering-Plough Research from 1989 to 1991. She received a B.S. in chemistry/mathematics from Muhlenberg College in Allentown Pennsylvania and an M.S. in organic chemistry and a Ph.D. in physical-organic chemistry from Drexel University. |