Cogstate Strengthens Global Clinical Science Expertise with the Appointment of Senior Vice President, Dr. Chris Edgar
10 February 2018 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
The cognitive science company, Cogstate Ltd (ASX.CGS) today
announced the addition of Dr. Chris Edgar, Senior Vice President,
Clinical Science to its global scientific leadership team. Dr.
Edgar joins the Cogstate team in Europe as an experienced leader in
cognitive assessment and clinical endpoint strategy. He will
provide expert guidance to Cogstate’s pharmaceutical customers
throughout all stages of trial conduct, from study design and test
selection through to final analysis. Dr. Edgar will also be a key
advisor to Cogstate’s commercial and product teams for the
development of new technologies and approaches in line with
industry needs.
“It’s with great excitement that we welcome Dr. Edgar to our
scientific leadership team,” said Brad O’Connor, Cogstate CEO. “He
brings valuable expertise to our customers and joins us at a
pivotal time as we continue to expand our support of clinical
trials with disruptive approaches to rater training, eSource
solutions and computerized cognitive assessment; and CognigramTM
for Healthcare.”
Dr. Edgar joins Cogstate from Roche where he oversaw clinical
endpoint strategy for multiple neuroscience indications in the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research group. He holds a PhD in
psychopharmacology from Northumbria University and has nearly two
decades of pharmaceutical industry experience.
Dr. Edgar has held other strategic positions including clinical
scientist at Roche on Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease drug
development programs, senior clinical lead for rater training and
data quality at Bracket, and scientific director at Cognitive Drug
Research Ltd., a computerized cognitive assessment company. Dr.
Edgar is also a respected consultant to numerous pharmaceutical
companies. His current research interests include defining
clinically meaningful progression and meaningful change estimates
in neurodegenerative disease, cognitive screening for Alzheimer’s
disease, application of survival analysis to neuroscience clinical
trials, defining treatment benefit for negative symptoms associated
with schizophrenia and measurement science topics relevant to
regulators.
About Cogstate
Cogstate Ltd (ASX:CGS) is a leading science and technology
solutions provider dedicated to optimizing the measurement of
cognition in clinical trials, academic research and healthcare.
Cogstate provides enabling technologies and professional services
for higher quality neuropsychological assessments and is a pioneer
in commercializing rapid, reliable and highly sensitive
computerized cognitive tests. Cogstate customers include the
world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies; elite sporting
organizations and military; physicians and patients; renowned
academic institutions and public-private partnerships. For more
information, please visit www.cogstate.com.
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