Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Charlotte Jones-Burton, M.D., M.S. as senior vice president of product development and strategy. Dr. Jones-Burton joins Chinook from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, where she most recently served as vice president of global clinical development and head of nephrology. She has spent over a decade in the pharmaceutical industry, including at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, where she led clinical trial development for multiple medicines across various disease areas including cardiovascular and renal diseases.