Aushon Biosystems has hired Mark Schmeizl to be vice president of North American sales. Schmeizl previously was a senior sales and marketing executive at PerkinElmer, Cisbio, and Affymetrix.
David Sneider has been named chief financial officer at Nerites. He joined the Madison, Wis.-based biotech from NimbleGen. He also previously served as CFO of Third Wave Technologies.
David Cox has joined Pfizer at chief scientific officer of its target generation unit. Cox was a co-founder of Perlegen, and he served as CSO at the company since 2000. He was a genetics and pediatrics professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and he was a co-director of the Stanford Genome Center.
Joshua LaBaer has joined the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University to serve as director of the new Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics. LaBaer was most recently director of the Harvard Institute of Proteomics.