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Dermira: Success is skin deep

Connetics, Peplin alums starting Dermira with a targeted PDT for acne

January 23, 2012 8:00 AM UTC

Founded by a management team with a history of growing and selling dermatology assets, Dermira Inc. has set off down a similar path with four molecules that originated at QLT Inc.

CEO Thomas Wiggans and CMO Eugene Bauer were both involved with Connetics Corp. and Peplin Inc. - a pair of dermatology companies that were taken out by larger players...