Acucela Adds Finance Chief

Acucela, the Seattle-based maker of drugs for eye diseases, said today it has hired David Lowrance as its chief financial officer. Lowrance was most recently chief financial officer for Nashville, TN-based Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CPIX]]), where he part of that company’s IPO.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.