Pain Therapeutics Inc. said it appointed Eric Schoen as the company's CFO, effective Nov. 7.

Schoen most recently served as senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer of Vermillion Inc., a publicly traded healthcare company. He also served at PricewaterhouseCoopers for nine years in the assurance, transaction services and global capital markets groups.

Austin, Texas-based Pain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.