Foundation Medicine: Priti Hegde

Priti Hegde has been appointed as CSO of Foundation Medicine, a Roche company, effective August 5. She replaces Michael Doherty, who will be retiring in September. Previously, she held various posts at Genentech, where she was most recently senior director and principal scientist in oncology biomarker development. Prior to that, she was manager of disease and biomarker transcriptomics at GlaxoSmithKline. Hegde holds a PhD in biochemical pharmacology from SUNY Buffalo and a B. Pharmacy degree from Mumbai University in India.