Vericel Corporation Appoints Patrick J. Fowler as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy
September 07, 2021 at 01:30 pm
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Vericel Corporation announced the appointment of Patrick J. Fowler as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, effective September 7, 2021. Mr. Fowler joins Vericel with over 15 years of business development, strategy and commercial operations experience in the biotech and medical technology industries. Most recently, Mr. Fowler served as Head, North America Strategy, Operations & New Product Development for Sanofi, formerly Genzyme Corporation. During his tenure at Sanofi, he also served as Head, North America Business Development, Specialty Care, as well as Head of Biosurgery Business Development & Portfolio Strategy. Previously, Mr. Fowler served in a number of corporate development roles at Genzyme.
Vericel Corporation is a fully-integrated, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is a provider of advanced therapies for the sports medicine and severe burn care markets. It markets three products in the United States. MACI (autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane) is an autologous-cellularized scaffold product indicated for the repair of symptomatic, single or multiple full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee with or without bone involvement in adults. Epicel (cultured epidermal autografts) is a permanent skin replacement for the treatment of patients with deep dermal or full thickness burns greater than or equal to 30% of total body surface area. The Company also holds a license for North American rights to NexoBrid (anacaulase-bcdb), a biological orphan product containing proteolytic enzymes, which is indicated for the removal of eschar in adults with deep partial-thickness and/or full-thickness burns.