Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Scott Braunstein, M.D., as Chairman of the Board. Dr. Braunstein succeeds Nicole Vitullo, who has retired from the Board of Directors following a 17-year tenure, including the past three years as Chairwoman. Marinus also announced two other departures from the Board, Michael Dougherty, who has retired, and Santiago Arroyo, M.D., Ph.D., who has stepped down following the announcement of his appointment as Chief Medical Officer of a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company.

The Board has initiated a search to replace these directors. Dr. Braunstein has served as Marinus CEO since August 2019, leveraging close to 30 years of diverse biopharma expertise. Most recently, Scott was Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Pacira Biosciences, Inc. Previously, he spent 13 years at J.P. Morgan as a portfolio manager for the Global Healthcare Fund and as a healthcare analyst for the U.S. and Global Equity team.

Dr. Braunstein has spent nearly a decade serving on the boards of several public biotechnology companies, and he currently sits on the boards for Trevena, Inc. and Caribou Biosciences, Inc. He began his career as a practicing physician at the Summit Medical Group and as assistant clinical professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center.