Helicos BioSciences last month appointed president and chief operating officer Steve Lombardi to be its new CEO, while current CEO Stan Lapidus will remain chairman of Helicos’ board of directors.
Lombardi will retain his position as president of the company while taking on the new position, Helicos said. He previously served as vice president of Applied Biosystems’ DNA sequencing and genetic analysis unit, and as senior vice president at Affymetrix.