Brian Bray

Brian Bray has over 25 years of experience in the development side of the pharmaceutical industry. He joined Parion in 2015 as VP of CMC and will be responsible for drug substance, drug product and the associated regulatory documentation required to bring new chemical entities into and through clinical development. Dr. Bray earned a Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Washington. After postdoctoral research at Syntex, he joined GSK as a process chemist where he worked on the scale-up of both small molecule and peptide therapeutics. He left GSK to lead the CMC activities at Trimeris to progress a 36 amino acid antiretroviral peptide, T-20, from early phase 1 clinical development through an NDA and commercialization as Fuzeon(r). For this work, he received the ACS Southeastern Regional Industrial Innovation Award. After Trimeris, Dr. Bray joined a small group of ex-Trimeris development scientists at Kainose Medicine to support, among others, a dry mouth program and an HIV compound. Brian was responsible for CMC and clinical development activities at Kainose. Dr. Bray served as a CMC consultant for Parion on the ENaC inhibitors P-321 and P-1037 prior to joining the company. Dr. Bray also led formulation development at BDSI prior to joining Parion.