Eisai has appointed Lynn Kramer, MD, to the newly created position of chief clinical officer of Eisai Product Creation Systems.

In this role, Kramer will be responsible for the approval of protocol designs of pivotal studies to achieve timely regulatory approval of competitive labels for new products, indications and life-cycle extensions. This includes the selection of study regions and clinical sites. He also will provide oversight of the design of Proof of Concept (POC) Studies for each of Eisai's Product Creation Units.

In addition to these new responsibilities, Kramer will continue to serve as president of the neuroscience and general medicine product creation unit, a position he has held since July 2009. In this capacity, Kramer is responsible for overseeing the full product creation cycle from discovery through regulatory approval of innovative projects in the neuroscience and general medicine areas.

Kramer joined Eisai in 2007 as executive vice president of global clinical research and was soon promoted to the additional role of COO of Eisai Medical Research. Upon the establishment of Eisai Product Creation Systems in 2009, he accepted a dual appointment as president of the neuroscience and general medicine product creation unit and also the scientific and operational clinical support (SOCS) core functional unit. He held the SOCS position until mid-2010.