Agile Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the company has nominated Sharon Barbari for election as a class III director to replace Abhijeet Lele, a member of the company’s board of directors and the board’s Lead Independent Director, who will not stand for re-election and cease to be a director on June 9, 2020, the date of the company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders. In addition, William McKee has informed the company that he will retire from the company’s board of directors effective June 9, 2020. The company plans to appoint Sandra Carson, M.D., FACOG as a class II director to replace Mr. McKee when he retires. Ms. Barbari has over 40 years of pharmaceutical and biotechnology experience, having served in various senior financial roles, including Chief Financial Officer, at several companies during her career, including Cytokinetics, InterMune and Gilead Sciences. Most recently, she served as the Emeritus Vice President for Education at the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) from August 2018 to February 2019 and Vice President for Education from March 2013 to August 2018. Mr. Lele has served on the company’s board of directors since 2010 and as the board’s lead independent director since 2016. The company’s board of directors plans to appoint Seth H.Z. Fischer as the lead independent director to replace Mr. Lele at the annual meeting of stockholders on June 9, 2020.
Agile Therapeutics, Inc. is a women's healthcare company, which is engaged in fulfilling the unmet health needs of women. Its product and product candidates are designed to provide women with contraceptive options that offer freedom from taking a daily pill, without committing to a longer-acting method. Its initial product, Twirla, (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol), a transdermal system, is a non-daily prescription contraceptive. Twirla is based on its proprietary transdermal patch technology, called Skinfusion, which is designed to allow drug delivery through the skin. Twirla (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) transdermal system is a once-weekly combined hormonal contraceptive (CHC) patch that contains the active ingredients levonorgestrel (LNG), a type of progestin, and ethinyl estradiol (EE), a type of estrogen. Its potential product pipeline consists of two types of product candidates: a progestin-only (P-only) contraceptive patch and potential Twirla line extensions.
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