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Dan Calvo, Ricardo Macarron

Apr 27, 2007
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Designs this week announced the appointment of Dan Calvo as president and chief executive officer. Prior to joining ADI, Calvo was president and CEO of Cellomics.
 
Calvo was previously vice president of worldwide sales and service for PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, and senior vice president of NEN Life Sciences.
 
 
The Society for Biomolecular Sciences announced this week that Ricardo Macarron, vice president of compound management of GlaxoSmithKline, assumed the office of president during its 13th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Montreal, Canada, April 15-19. 
 
Macarron joined SBS in 1999. He served as a board member of SBS from 2000 to 2002 and has been associate editor of the Journal of Biomolecular Screening since 2002. He was chair of the SBS Conference Committee from 2004 to 2005. He is also the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Molecular Discovery at the University of Pennsylvania.

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