Zogenix, Inc. Appoints Shawnte Mitchell as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

Zogenix Inc is a United States-based biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in the development and commercialization of therapies for rare diseases. It is primarily focused on developing and commercializing two therapeutic product opportunities: Fintepla and MT1621. Its first rare disease therapy, Fintepla is an oral solution, developed for the treatment of seizures associated with Dravet syndrome, a rare, devastating, severe lifelong epilepsy. The Company also has two late-stage development programs underway, one for Fintepla for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a rare childhood-onset epilepsy. MT1621 is an investigational deoxynucleoside-combination substrate enhancement therapy in development for the treatment of TK2d, an inherited mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid depletion disease that predominantly affects children and is often fatal.