GENFIT announced that Dr. Carol L. Addy has joined the Company as Chief Medical Officer. She brings with her over 20 years of experience in the healthcare space, and over 10 years leading clinical development teams in the pharmaceutical industry, supporting early and late-stage investigation of novel drugs and creating innovative solutions for the life-cycle management of approved therapies in obesity and diabetes. Dr. Addy is ideally positioned to actively contribute to GENFIT’s growth, on a global scale. An endocrinologist by training, she has a comprehensive understanding of the holistic clinical management of metabolic and chronic diseases associated with obesity. Prior to joining GENFIT, Carol held various leadership roles, including most recently, Chief Medical Officer at Health Management Resources, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., and as Associate Director, Director and Senior Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories.