Roy E. Twyman, M.D., is Vice President, Franchise Development in the Central Nervous System/Pain Area of Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.  In this position, he oversees licensing and acquisition efforts for neurology, psychiatry, and pain franchises while coordinating strategic activities for CNS discovery optimization, early human studies and proof of concept, new technologies and cross-company projects.  Additional oversight includes the pharmacogenomics and neuroimaging teams that support broad based pharma R&D across all therapeutic areas.  Before his work at Johnson and Johnson, Dr. Twyman was on faculty at the University of Utah and the University of Michigan.

Dr. Twyman received his Bachelors in Science from Purdue University in Electrical Engineering.  He earned his Medical Degree from the University of Kentucky and completed a neurology residency at University of Michigan.