Steve Martin, director of Applied Biosystems’ Proteomics Research Center in Framington, Mass., has left the company, ABI spokeswoman Amy Speak confirmed last week. Martin left last month and will be replaced by Peter Juhasz, Speak said. She did not say why Martin left, or where he is headed.
Hans Baum has become vice president of European operations of Bruker Daltonics. Baum has held various positions at Bruker Daltonik in Germany since 1987. Prior to joining the company, Baum served in the German Armed Forces as a nuclear, biological, and chemical defense officer.
Peter Wilver will become chief financial officer at Thermo Electron as of Oct. 1. He is currently vice president of financial operations. Wilver will replace current CFO Theo Melas-Kyriazi. Prior to joining Thermo, Wilver held various finance positions at Honeywell International. Prior to that, he worked at Grimes Aerospace and General Electric.
Leroy Hood will receive the 6th annual Biotechnology Heritage Award, the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Biotechnology Industry Organization said in April. The presentation will be made next Monday at BIO 2004 in San Francisco. CHF and BIO are honoring Hood for his role in developing automated sequencing technology. Hood is the president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from California Technical Institue and an MD from Johns Hopkins University.
Martin Vingron and Gene Myers have received this year’s Max Planck Research Prize. The award ceremony will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, on June 24.