Camargo Pharmaceutical Services

Ray Dawkins, M.D., has been appointed chief medical officer at Camargo Pharmaceutical Services. Dr. Dawkins has more than 25 years of clinical research and pharmaceutical development experience including Phase I, first-in-human and biologics. He also has expertise in Phase I-III clinical trial design, drug safety reporting, medical writing and international regulatory interaction and submissions.

“The addition of Dr. Dawkins will expand our services to include so-called bio-betters – biologics that are improved over the reference products,” said Ken Phelps, president and chief executive officer of Camargo. “We use our proven knowledge of how to improve small molecule drugs to improve biologic-based drugs. In a sense, we’re just living up to our brand and teaching a new dog a new trick.”

Prior to joining the company, Dr. Dawkins was an executive medical director of medical affairs at Paragon Biomedical in Cary, NC. He was also the senior medical director of clinical development at Talecris Biotherapeutics in Research Triangle Park, NC. In previous positions, Dr. Dawkins was responsible for planning, implementing, leading and evaluating global projects, as well as business development and product acquisition activities.