Neuren Pharmaceuticals Limited announced that Nancy E. Jones, Ph.D., has joined the Company as Senior Director of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs. In this role, Dr. Jones will assume a leadership role in designing and managing Neuren's expanding portfolio in neurodevelopment disorders, a therapeutic area that includes Ret and Fragile X Syndromes. Dr. Jones comes to the company from Autism Speaks.

In addition, Dr. Jones has been co-leading an effort to identify and develop gold standard outcome measures that assess the key clinical features of autism spectrum disorders in treatment studies.