Trevena, Inc. announced the recent additions of three key members to its leadership team. The Company has appointed Linda Wase, M.D. as Vice President of Medical Affairs, Michael Catalano as Vice President of Marketing, and Bob Yoder as Vice President of Sales & Commercial Operations. Linda Wase, M.D., has worked with Trevena since 2017, first as a consultant guiding Medical Affairs strategy and, since March 2018, as Vice President of Medical Affairs. She has over 30 years of industry experience and has held multiple senior-level roles in Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, working at GlaxoSmithKline, Archimedes Pharma, King Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Lederle Laboratories, among others. Dr. Wase is board certified in Internal Medicine. Michael Catalano joined Trevena as Vice President of Marketing in February of this year. He brings a wealth of experience from Merck in US and global marketing, corporate licensing, and business development across oncology, vaccines, pain, and acute care/hospital. Mr. Catalano is also a licensed pharmacist in Pennsylvania. Bob Yoder has joined Trevena as Vice President of Sales & Commercial Operations. He brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in sales operations, sales, and business planning. After holding various commercial roles at Merck, Mr. Yoder was Senior Vice President & Head of Global Commercial Operations, Alliance Management & IT at Orexigen.
Trevena, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines for patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The Company has one approved product in the United States, OLINVYK (oliceridine) injection, indicated in adults for the management of acute pain severe enough to require an intravenous opioid analgesic and for whom alternative treatments are inadequate. The Companyâs pipeline includes three differentiated investigational drug candidates: TRV045 for diabetic neuropathic pain and epilepsy, TRV250 for the acute treatment of migraine and TRV734 for maintenance treatment of opioid use disorder. TRV045 is a novel, highly selective sphingosine-1-phosphate subtype 1 (S1P1) receptor modulator being developed as a potential treatment for acute and chronic neuropathic pain secondary to diabetic peripheral neuropathy. TRV734 is a small molecule G-protein biased ligand of the mu opioid receptor (MOR).