Donald C. Manning MD, PhD

Dr. Donald C. Manning joined Adynxx in January 2012 continuing a 14 year career in the pharmaceutical industry where he has held positions of increasing scope and responsibility starting at Novartis as Global Head of Analgesics Development to Vice President and Neurosciences Therapeutic Area Head at Celgene, Vice President and Head of Clinical Development at Alpharma, VP of Medical Affairs at King Pharma and Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Shionogi Inc. Don received his BSc in Physiology and Biochemistry from McGill University in Montreal and earned his PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Solomon H. Snyder at Johns Hopkins University where he also earned his MD. He pursued residency training in Anesthesiology, fellowship training in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Neurosurgery under Dr. James Campbell all at Johns Hopkins. Before joining the pharmaceutical industry Don held clinical academic faculty positions in the Departments of Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins, where he was co-director of the Pain Management Center and The University of Virginia Health Sciences Center.

Don has lectured and published widely on pain management topics and is a past-president of the Eastern Pain Association, a regional affiliate of the American Pain Society.