Nymox Announces Appointment Of Patrick Doody as Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors of Nymox

IRVINE, Calif., July 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation [OTC Markets – NYMXF] (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Doody as Nymox Vice President, General Counsel, and Member of Nymox Board of Directors.

Mr. Doody joins Nymox from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where he was a partner in the Intellectual Property Group, and currently is Senior Counsel. Mr. Doody is a well-respected patent attorney with significant knowledge and experience in post-grant proceedings, patent infringement litigation, patent prosecution, licensing, opinions, and counseling. Mr. Doody has represented Nymox and its predecessor company in intellectual property matters for over 30 years, securing hundreds of issued patents for Nymox throughout the world. Mr. Doody is a former patent examiner, former in-house counsel for Union Carbide Corporation, former partner at Tier 1, AMLAW 100 firms, and also is an adjunct professor of patent law at the George Washington University School of Law. Mr. Doody obtained his BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and his law degree from the Scalia School of Law (formerly George Mason School of Law), has served in a number of leadership positions in various intellectual property associations, is ranked Band 2 by Chambers for Intellectual Property, and AV ranked by Martindale Hubbell. Much of Mr. Doody’s legal career has involved counseling biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies on all aspects of intellectual property law.

Dr. Paul Averback CEO and Chairman of Nymox said, "Patrick brings with him decades of experience with industry and in legal intellectual property practice. He is highly sophisticated and has a sterling reputation, and has worked in some of the best law practices in the world, including for many years as partner at Pillsbury Winthrop. Patrick has worked on many of the Company's important files for a span of over 30 years and has our confidence that he will bring his integrity and legal expertise to our management team and to the Board of Directors of the Company. In addition to legal matters, Pat is extremely well versed in our technologies and understands the detailed biochemical and biomedical aspects of our work, which is a potent legal plus scientific combination that the Company is pleased to add to management and to the Board. He has valuable work experience from the real world of industry which is a major positive for this position."