NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Thermo Fisher Scientific said this week that it has appointed David Sabatini to its scientific advisory board. Sabatini is a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where he studies the basic mechanisms of cell growth. He has several affiliations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as senior associate member of The Broad Institute, a member of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and associate professor of biology. He also is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
French biotech company Meiogenix has appointed its scientific advisory board. The company has named Alain Nicolas to chair the SAB. Nicolas is a group leader at the Research Center of the Curie Institute and invented the Meiogenix technology that stimulates homologous recombination of targeted sites in the genome.
The SAB also will include Holger Puchta, chair of plant molecular biology and biochemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Philip Avner, head of the mouse molecular genetics unit and the developmental biology department at the Pasteur Institute.
The Belgian bioinformatics and PCR company Biogazelle has appointed Kris Vanhercke to be chief operating officer. The company is a spinoff from Ghent University and specializes in qPCR experiment design and data analysis.
The Critical Path Institute has added four new members to its board, and has named current board member Peter Corr to be the new board chairman.
The new members include Craig Brater, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine; Samuel Broder, executive VP and chief medical officer at Celera Genomics; James Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and Richard Myers, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents.
Cartagenia, which develops software to automate genetic analysis, has hired Drew Arnold as vice president of sales and business development in North America, where he will head the company's new office in Boston, Mass. Arnold was previously at GenomeQuest, where he headed its global sales team. He has also held positions at Silicon Informatics and Lion Bioscience.
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