Company: SUPN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-042531
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Company: SUPERNUS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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2022. Prior to EScape, Dr. Barlow served as Chief Executive Officer of the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center (Parkinson’s Institute), an independent nonprofit organization providing research, clinical trials and patient care for Parkinson’s and related disorders. There, she led all aspects of basic research, clinical research, and clinical care, as well as partnerships with biotech and pharmaceutical companies. She remained a member of the board of directors for the Parkinson’s Institute until 2019. Before joining the Parkinson’s Institute in 2014, since 2008 Dr. Barlow has also served as a consultant and advisor to a variety of biotechnology companies addressing neurologic, psychiatric, metabolic and rare genetic diseases. She was acting Chief Medical Officer at Amicus Therapeutics leading the execution, analysis and regulatory interactions that resulted in the approval of the first small-molecule therapy for Fabry disease (migalastat). She also led efforts that resulted in the first proof-of-concept clinical studies in patients for two novel biologic programs for Pompe and Fabry diseases. Previously, Dr. Barlow was a co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer of BrainCells Inc., advancing new therapeutic approaches for neurological and psychiatric disease, and worked at Merck Research Laboratories as Director of Molecular Neuroscience and worldwide leader of the Stroke and Neurodegeneration therapeutic areas. Earlier in her career, Dr. Barlow was a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where she was a pioneer in the nascent field of neurogenomics. Dr. Barlow served as a member of the board of directors of Orphazyme A/S, a publicly traded company, and on the scientific advisory boards of ReCode Therapeutics, Kainos Medicine, CIONIC, and Rune Biosciences, each a private company. Dr. Barlow received her M.D. from the University of Utah and completed her residency in internal medicine at The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in molecular and developmental biology at the Karolinska Medical Nobel Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Shortly thereafter, she joined the National Institutes of Health and completed specialty training in endocrinology and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Barlow is an author of approximately 100 peer-reviewed research papers, review articles and book chapters, and is an inventor on numerous U.S. patents. Dr. Barlow’s extensive executive and pharmaceutical research experience with various neurological and psychiatric diseases