Garen Manvelian, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Garen Manvelian joined us in September 2007 as our Chief Medical Officer. From 2006 to 2007 Dr. Manvelian served as Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs at New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public biotechnology company. From 2000 to 2006 he served as Senior Director, Clinical and Medical Affairs at SkyePharma Inc. Prior to that, he served as a Clinical Research Scientist at Quintiles CNS Therapeutics.

Dr. Manvelian holds an M.D. degree from the Vitebsk State Medical University in Vitebsk, Belarus. He completed a residency program in anesthesiology at the Republic Hospital of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology.