NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Helicos BioSciences has appointed Steve Lombardi, president and COO of the company, to take over the role of CEO for Stan Lapidus, who will remain chairman of the board of directors. Lombardi will retain his position as president of the company. He has served as VP of Applied Biosystems’ DNA sequencing and genetic analysis unit, and he has been a senior VP at Affymetrix.

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