SteadyMed announces Liz Cermak to its Board of Directors

– USA, CA – SteadyMed Ltd. (Nasdaq:STDY), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of drug products to treat orphan and high value diseases with unmet parenteral delivery needs, today announced the appointment of Elizabeth A. Cermak to its Board of Directors.

“In line with the continued execution of our corporate strategy, I am very pleased to announce Liz’s appointment to our Board,” said Jonathan M. N. Rigby, President and CEO of SteadyMed. “She has significant experience developing and executing commercial strategies in the pharmaceutical industry. Her strong track record of success covers a range of relevant areas including product launches, sales and marketing, product development, alliance management, commercial strategies and business development. We look forward to drawing on Liz’s considerable experience as we work towards the approval and, if approved, the commercialization of Trevyent®, our lead drug product candidate for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. I am highly confident Liz will make significant contributions to our company in the coming months and years.”

Since July 2014, Ms. Cermak has served on the board of directors of Clarus Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. From September 2009 to January 2014, Ms. Cermak served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer of Pozen, Inc., a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Pozen, Ms. Cermak was Worldwide Vice President for Johnson & Johnson and served in a variety of senior leadership roles across the pharmaceutical, consumer products and health management businesses. She has spent over 25 years in the healthcare industry and has led a number of Marketing and Sales organizations, most notably the $1.0B Women’s Health business at Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Her Rx and Consumer Products experience spans a number of therapeutic areas, including contraception, urology, pain, GI, CNS, anti-infectives, eye care and hair loss, with a successful track record of launching new products and growing and globalizing brands. Prior to this, Ms. Cermak was a senior management consultant for what is now Deloitte. Ms. Cermak holds an MBA in Finance from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and a BA Cum Laude in Accounting and Spanish from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

About SteadyMed

SteadyMed Ltd. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of drug products to treat orphan and high value diseases with unmet parenteral delivery needs. The company’s lead drug product candidate is Trevyent®, a development stage drug product that combines SteadyMed’s PatchPump technology with treprostinil, a vasodilatory prostacyclin analogue to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. PatchPump is a proprietary, disposable, parenteral drug administration platform that is prefilled and preprogrammed at the site of manufacture. SteadyMed has offices in San Ramon, California and Rehovot, Israel.

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