Dr. Mark A. Smith M.D., Ph.D. serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Company. Dr. Smith has served as our Chief Medical Officer since June 2016. Dr. Smith served as the Clinical Lead for Neuropsychiatry at Teva Pharmaceuticals from November 2013 through June 2016. He served as Senior Director of Experimental Medicine, Global Clinical Development and Innovation at Shire Pharmaceuticals from September 2012 to October 2013 and at AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Company as Executive Director of Clinical Development and in other senior positions from June 2000 through September 2012. He served as a Senior Investigator and Principal Research Scientist in CNS Diseases Research at DuPont Pharmaceutical Company from 1996 to 2000 and in the Biological Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branches of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1987 through 1996. Dr. Smith has significant expertise in drug discovery and development and clinical trial design and execution, having directed approximately fifty clinical trials from Phase 0 through Phase II B and served as project leader in both the discovery and development of approximately twenty investigational new drugs aimed at depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and other disorders. Dr. Smith received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University; his M.D and Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego and completed his residency at Duke University Medical Center.
As the Chief Medical Officer of Vistagen Therapeutics, the total compensation of Mark Smith at Vistagen Therapeutics is $596,838. There are 4 executives at Vistagen Therapeutics getting paid more, with Shawn Singh having the highest compensation of $933,667.
Mark Smith is 64, he's been the Chief Medical Officer of Vistagen Therapeutics since 2016. There are 8 older and 7 younger executives at Vistagen Therapeutics. The oldest executive at Vistagen Therapeutics Inc. is Jon Saxe, 84, who is the Independent Chairman of the Board.
Mark's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O VISTAGEN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 343 ALLERTON AVENUE, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 94080.
Over the last 8 years, insiders at Vistagen Therapeutics have traded over $147,300 worth of Vistagen Therapeutics stock and bought 1,944,506 units worth $18,208,989 . The most active insiders traders include Healthcare Capital Partners..., Capital Lp Commodore, and Jon S Saxe. On average, Vistagen Therapeutics executives and independent directors trade stock every 88 days with the average trade being worth of $378,372. The most recent stock trade was executed by Capital Lp Commodore on 7 August 2023, trading 775,756 units of VTGN stock currently worth $17,958,751.
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