Vizgen: Christian Uhrich and Chad Brown

Vizgen has named Christian Uhrich, investment director at M Ventures, to its board of directors. Uhrich joined M Ventures in 2019 from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, where he led initiatives in strategy and operations across the healthcare and life science business sectors. A strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, M Ventures invested in Vizgen in late 2024 when the company completed its Series D equity financing.

In addition, Vizgen has named Chad Brown as its chief commercial officer. Prior to Vizgen, Brown was the senior VP of sales and marketing at NanoString Technologies. Before that, he was the president and head of commercial operations of North America at Qiagen.