Mission Bio: Yan Zhang, Charlie Silver

Single-cell analysis firm Mission Bio has appointed Yan Zhang as CEO.

Zhang joins Mission Bio after 10 years at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where she led that firm's commercial organization in China for genetic sciences and clinical next-generation sequencing and was general manager for its reproductive health and microarray businesses. Prior to Thermo, Zhang held product management and commercialization roles at Affymetrix, NuGen Technologies, and Molecular Devices. She holds a PhD in biochemistry from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Former CEO Charlie Silver, a Mission Bio cofounder, will move into an advisory role.