Symic Bio announced the appointment of Wayne Froland, Ph.D., as Executive Vice President of Technical Operations. Froland has over 20 years of experience in industry primarily focusing on process development in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
"Dr. Froland will play an integral role at Symic as we build our capabilities for potential commercial-scale manufacturing," said Ken Horne, Symic Bio's Chief Executive Officer. "His experience with peptide biochemistry will be extremely helpful in satisfying the requirements for production of our novel category of therapeutics targeting the extracellular matrix."
Froland was most recently Associate Vice President at Merck where he was responsible for biopharmaceutical product development, commercialization and manufacturing strategy. He has previously worked at Calypte Biomedical, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Aerovance. Froland is the co-inventor on three patents related to synthesis of therapeutic peptides and has authored 20 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of biochemistry and structural biology. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota Medical School and conducted post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.