Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 16, 2000

Harry Dugger Iii – Flemington Pharmaceutical Corporation (flem.ob)

DR. HARRY A. DUGGER, III is the President and CEO of Flemington Pharmaceutical Corp. Dr. Dugger was the founder of Flemington Pharmaceutical Corp. and the inventor of the lingual spray and bite capsule technology, which the company is developing and marketing as Immediate-Immediate Release (I2R)'. Dr. Dugger received his PhD from the University of Michigan and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University Of Zurich working on the chemical structure of the colors in red beets and on pseudo-aromatic compounds. He joined Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in the USA in 1964, where he was responsible for drug development primarily in the areas of biopharmaceuticals and drug metabolism. In 1980 he resigned to join a Baurs-Krey Associates in New York, and in 1983 he founded Pharmaconsult, the precursor to Flemington. Through Pharmaconsult Dr. Dugger advised clients on all aspects of drug development, including but not limited to manufacturing of drug substances and drug products (cGMP), toxicity studies, clinical trails, filing of ANDAs, INDs NDAs as well as co-founding LAB Inc. in the USA to market the clinical services of LAB GmbH (Germany) to the US based pharmaceutical companies. Since 1996 Dr. Dugger has spent much of his time in developing a number of the I2R formulations and running studies to demonstrate their utility. Profile
TWST: Could you please begin with a background summary and profile of

Flemington Pharmaceutical Corp.?

Dr. Dugger: The company started in 1982 as a consulting company called

Pharmaconsult Inc.