Steven Ruben has been appointed vice president for protein therapeutics at Celera Genomics. He will lead target discovery programs for therapeutic antibodies and oversee the company’s cell biology, protein chemistry, and mass spectrometry efforts. He joins Celera from Human Genome Sciences, where he was vice president for research.
Martin Latterich has left his post as director of proteomics at Illumina, to become an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in Montreal in July. Meanwhile, he is an adjunct assistant professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. Latterich holds a PhD in molecular cell biology from the University of Durham, UK.
John Varian will become CFO of Deltagen as soon as the company closes a preferred stock private placement it announced in early April. Until then, he will serve as interim CFO. Varian was CFO of Genset from 2000 to 2002. From 1998 to 2000, he was senior vice president for finance and administration at Elan Pharmaceuticals, and before that, CFO at Neurex, which Elan acquired in 1998. He was also previously CFO of Anergen. Varian holds a BBA from Western Michigan University.