Marc Hoffman, MD, was placed as the chief science and medical officer of Rockwell Medical, Inc. in Bergen County, New Jersey. Founded in the 1990s, Rockwell is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical and medical device company targeting end-stage renal disease, oncology, and total parenteral nutrition. The company has achieved the first and only FDA approval of a therapeutic indicated to treat potentially anemic hemodialysis patients and is in the process of launching this therapeutic into the U.S. market; further, Rockwell has received patent protection in numerous countries, including in the four largest markets worldwide relative to its lead targeted therapeutic area. In the new CSO\/CMO role, Dr. Hoffman holds both chief medical officer and R&D responsibilities, providing leadership and direction for the company’s pipeline of clinical development programs in drug development and for the strategy, direction, and execution of its clinical development plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Hoffman comes to Rockwell from Celerion. As chief medical officer, he was directly involved in defining and implementing the overall business strategy and direction of the organization; providing medical oversight, expertise, and leadership to support early clinical research studies at Celerion’s clinics globally; and holding operational responsibility for the oversight and expansion of clinical operations focused on early clinical research (phase I\/II) performed outside of Celerion clinics in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previously, Dr. Hoffman served as the chief medical officer of Chiltern International and its subsidiary Theorem Clinical Research; as vice president of medical and scientific affairs for Covance; as vice president of global medical affairs and product safety for Hospira, Inc.; in progressively responsible roles with Baxter Healthcare Corporation in clinical research, medical affairs, and global regulatory affairs; and as the president of MEDEX. He began his career as a research associate in Europe after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Emory University and his MD from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. Dr. Hoffman also holds a Diploma of Pharmaceutical Medicine from the Royal College of Medicine at the University of Wales in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
QLK Search’s Steve Derks<\/a>, Patti Hall, and Jamie Cassedy<\/a> led the search to recruit Dr. Hoffman to Rockwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marc Hoffman, MD, was placed as the chief science and medical officer of Rockwell Medical, Inc. in Bergen County, New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28770,"template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-29264","placements","type-placements","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n