Spriaso is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving therapeutics through innovative patient friendly product options.

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Spriaso has several candidates under development with a focus on innovating and developing product and product candidates with significant value proposition for patients, physicians, payers and commercialization partners. Spriaso’s focus is on meeting unmet needs for CNS and GI disorders. Our portfolio of unique proprietary products have successfully completed proof of principle clinical studies and are expected to proceed to NDA filing in the near term. These products are available for out-license and are protected by multiple patents.

Management

Firoozeh Patel

President and CEO

Firoozeh has a BA in pharmacy and MBA in marketing, Firoozeh is a licensed pharmacist in state of Utah and Nevada. Firoozeh has held lead management positions at several major retail pharmacies and has 25 years of operational, and marketing experience along with expertise in pharmacotherapy and drug delivery. Firoozeh had held adjunct professor position at University of Utah College of pharmacy and has mentored several students from University of Utah, Roseman University, and University of Idaho.


Dr. William Higuchi

Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Higuchi is a Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutics in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah. He received a B.A. from San Jose University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Along with graduating more than 100 Ph.D. students, Higuchi has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in the area of pharmaceutics and is a world-renowned leader in the field of drug delivery. Dr. Higuchi served as the editor for the International Journal of Pharmaceutics and as the editor of The Journal of Pharmaceutical.

Directors


Dr. William I. Higuchi

Chairman of the Board

Dr. Higuchi is co-founder of Lipocine Inc., and served as its Chairman of the Board from inception to 2013. Dr. Higuchi was a co-founder of TheraTech, Inc., and served as Chairman, which is now a subsidiary of Actavis. Higuchi has had over 40 years of experience in the research and development and corporate development.


Firoozeh Patel

Director

Firoozeh has a BA in pharmacy and MBA in marketing, Firoozeh is a licensed pharmacist in state of Utah and Nevada. Firoozeh has held lead management positions at several major retail pharmacies and has 25 years of operational, and marketing experience along with expertise in pharmacotherapy and drug delivery. Firoozeh had held adjunct professor position at University of Utah College of pharmacy and has mentored several students from University of Utah, Roseman University, and University of Idaho.


Gordhan Patel

Director

Gordhan has served as a member of our Board of Directors since inception. He is a registered pharmacist in the state of Illinois. Since 1988, he has been the Chairman of The American Standard Circuit, Inc. and United Electronics, a world class manufacturers of high Speed RF/Microwave, Digital, Flex and Rigid-flex printed circuit boards. He founded Franklin Discount Drugs in 1987 and American Powder Coatings, Inc., a specialty chemical company. He is also a co-founder and chairman of American Precision Machining, Inc., Kleer Pak Manufacturing, Inc. and Moffat Wire Products. Mr. Patel is a co-founder of Lipocine Inc, a specialty pharma company and served as its director till 2013.


John W. Higuchi

Director

John is President and Chief Executive Officer of Aciont Inc., an ocular therapeutics company in Salt Lake City, UT. Mr. Higuchi is a co-founder of Lipocine Inc, a specialty pharma company and serves as its director. Mr. Higuchi has more than 16 years of experience in the area of product and technology licensing, finance and marketing management, public policy and research and development experience in start-up companies specializing in drug delivery. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Higuchi served as Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Treasurer for Lipocine. Mr. Higuchi also has worked for the American Chemical Society. He received his BS degree in Chemistry at Hope College and his MBA and Master of Science in Information Systems from The George Washington University.


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