About The AID Externship Program

Brief description of company:
Novan, Inc. is a medical dermatology company primarily focused on researching, developing and commercializing innovative therapeutic products for skin diseases.

Mentor: Tomoko Maeda-Chubachi, MD, PhD, MBA

Number of externs: 2 to 3

Duration of externship: 3 weeks to 3 months. The actual timing needs to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.

Format: Either onsite (Durham, North Carolina) or virtual

Activities/Responsibilities: Depending on the stage of the various company projects and the extern’s interest, the externs will engage the following activities. The activities would mainly involve shadowing the Chief Medical Officer and Medical/Clinical affairs’ support. It may be possible to have an opportunity to participate in research (analytical science, translational research).

a. NDA support (literature search, writing, reviewing) – molluscum contagiosum

b. Portfolio prioritization support (dermatology indications)

c. Clinical trial support (protocol development, safety review, communication with investigators, clinical study report writing/review)

d. Review/discussion about investigator-initiated research

e. Publication support (data mining, writing, creating tables/figures, interpretation, poster creation, etc)

f. Educational material creation to support medical science liaisons

Prerequisite experience/qualifications needed: high speed, reliable and secure internet connection

Brief description of company:

VeraDermics Inc. is a dermatology-focused pharmaceutical start-up founded by dermatologists in 2019. At VeraDermics, we use our end-user knowledge as dermatologists to identify solutions to common dermatologic conditions that meet the needs of patients and their physicians alike.

Our lead product is an immunotherapy-containing dissolvable microneedle patch developed for the treatment of warts. We are creating this product because we want to take the fear and pain out of wart treatments for children. We aim to test WartPatch in a clinical trial in 2022.

In September 2021, VeraDermics Inc. raised a Series A financing. One of the goals of this financing is to identify and in-license additional products to expand our pipeline.

Mentor: Tim Durso, MD and Reid Waldman, MD

Number of externs: 1-2

Duration of externship: Duration is flexible, 3M-12M

Format: The externship will be virtual

Activities/Responsibilities:
We are seeking an AID Extern who is interested in developing relationships with start-ups and university tech transfer offices to help us identify promising technologies. The extern will:
– Establish Relationships with University Tech Transfer Offices
– Identify Promising Therapeutics with Dermatologic Applications
– Present Promising Therapeutics to the VeraDermics Executive Team

Prerequisite experience/qualifications needed:
Must be a dermatology resident