Nikhilesh Singh
President and Chief Executive Officer
Business and Management
Reactor Monitoring and Simulation Laboratory
Canada
Biography
Nikhilesh Singh, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OrphoMed, has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products, including OTC and prescription drugs. He is the primary inventor on several U.S. and international patents that cover a products ranging from OTC (Vicks® Formula 44), prescription (Intermezzo®) and new chemical entities, including OrphoMed’s novel dimer therapeutics. Dr. Singh founded OrphoMed in 2014 to develop drugs based on a proprietary dimer technology platform. Previously, Dr. Singh founded Transcept Pharmaceuticals to develop, launch, and commercialize Intermezzo®, a proprietary, novel sublingual tablet for the treatment of insomnia. Dr. Singh is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Research Interest
Business and Management