Michael Ball has become the new CEO of GenoLogics, the Victoria, Canada-based company said on Monday. Previously, he held positions as vice president at both Creo and Carmanah Technologies. Company founder James DeGreef will become GenoLogics' president. GenoLogics offers a proteomics laboratory information management system.
Steven Gullans is the new president and CEO of RxGen, the company said on Monday. He will replace Harry Penner, the interim CEO, who will remain chairman of the board. Gullans, a co-founder of RxGen, joins the company from US Genomics, where he was CSO. He holds a PhD in physiology from
Hans Johansson is the new CEO of Sidec Technologies, the Stockholm-based company said on Monday. He succeeds Gösta Sjöholm, who resigned as CEO but will remain with the company during a transition period. Johansson comes to Sidec from Biotage, where he was president of the BioSystems Division. Prior to that, he was CEO of Personal Chemistry.
Kurt Berens will join CytoGenix as vice president of product development, the Houston-based gene silencing company said yesterday. He used to be a section manager for Wyle Laboratories, Cellular and Biomedical Group, at the NASA-Johnson Space Center in
Robert Millman has become chief patent counsel of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company said on Monday. He has been a company consultant since 2003. Most recently, Millman was a freelance intellectual property consultant for biotechnology companies and the interim chief patent counsel at Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, he was chief IP counsel at Celera Genomics. Millman holds a JD degree from the Washington College of Law at
Lars Holmkvist has become president of Applied Biosystems Europe, ABI said on Monday. Most recently, he was vice president of vascular and cardiac surgery in
Mehis Pold has become director of research in molecular medicine at CeMines, the Evergreen, Colo.-based company said last week. Since 2000, he has been a researcher in the division of pulmonology at the
Genospectra has appointed Ron Hahn to its board, the Fremont, Calif.-based company said yesterday. Hahn, a venture capitalist focusing on health care and life sciences, is a partner of Battelle Ventures, which led Genospectra's recent financing round.
Joel Brill has joined the newly created business development advisory board of GenoMed, the St. Louis-based company said today. He is a clinical assistant professor at the
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Third Wave Technologies has appointed Lionel Sterling to its board of directors, the Madison, Wis.-based company said last week. He replaces Tom Daniel, who resigned from the board. Most recently, he was a director of I-STAT, a point-of-care diagnostics company.
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