Shimon Nahum

Shimon Nahum has served as Senior Manager Formulation and CMC of Azura Ophthalmics since January 2018. Shimon has 10 years of formulation development experience across a variety of dosage forms in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Prior to joining Azura Ophthalmics, Shimon was Project Coordinator at Teva Pharmaceuticals within the specialty R&D unit in charge of the development of New Chemical Entities and Drug-Device combinations. While at Teva, Shimon also worked across the generics unit responsible for the development of nasal products. He also spent four years at sister companies Tree of Life Pharma and Panaxia Pharmaceuticals as Formulation Team Leader, developing over the counter drug products, dermal filers and cannabis-based treatments. Shimon was the key developer in formulation and analytical method development enabling the business to establish spin-offs including Luminera Ltd, a manufacturer of injectable medical devices in the medical aesthetic field, and Panaxia Medical Cannabis Ltd.