Lipocine Inc. announced George Nomikos, M.D., Ph.D., has joined Lipocine as Chief Medical Officer and Spyros Papapetropoulos, M.D. Ph.D., has been appointed Lead Director and Chairman of the Board. George Nomikos, M.D., Ph.D. is a biopharmaceutical R&D scientist and psychiatry-trained clinician with extensive academic and industry experience in neuropsychiatric, neurometabolic, neurohormonal, neuromuscular and chronic pain therapeutics. He has a proven track record directing large cross-site and cross-functional teams to key advancement decisions in drug discovery research and clinical development.

Until recently he served as SVP, Medical & Clinical Sciences at Scholar Rock, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, where he oversaw clinical development and medical functions of neuromuscular therapeutics. Dr. Nomikos previously held senior positions at Biogen, Sage, Takeda, Astellas, Amgen and Eli Lilly. He has directed a broad spectrum of early development and registrational/pivotal Phase 1-4 clinical trials, leading to successful regulatory filings and new product launches worldwide.

He received an MD and a Doctorate degree in Pharmacology from the Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and a PhD in Psychiatry/Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is licensed to practice medicine in Greece and Sweden and was an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Nomikos has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and reviews, authored several book chapters and patents, and edited a textbook on Translational Medicine in CNS Drug Development.

Spyros Papapetropoulos M.D. Ph.D. has been a member of Lipocine's board since April 2022. He is an experienced biopharmaceutical executive, recognized neuroscientist, neurodegenerative disease clinician and change agent. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at Vigil Neuro.

Previously he served as Chief Development Officer, and SVP, Head of Development at Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc., CEO at SwanBio Therapeutics, and Head of Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer at Cavion. Before Cavion, he held senior/executive positions at Biogen Inc., Allergan plc, Pfizer Inc., and Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc. Over the last 25 years Spyros has overseen a broad spectrum of CNS-focused academic and biopharmaceutical R&D programs (small molecules, biologics, gene therapy) leading to successful regulatory filings and new product launches worldwide. He trained as a Movement Disorders Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, UK and was faculty at the University of Miami, School of Medicine prior to joining the biopharmaceutical industry.

Spyros has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications with 8K citations, several patents, book chapters, presented and chaired meetings since 1997. He received his MD and PhD from University of Patras, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine (Greece).