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T2 Biosystems: Thierry Bernard, Ninfa Saunders, Robin Toft

Jun 18, 2020

T2 Biosystems has appointed Thierry Bernard, Ninfa Saunders, and Robin Toft to its board of directors. Bernard currently serves as CEO of Qiagen, Saunders is president and CEO of Navicent Health, and Toft is founder and CEO of Toft Group and previously served as senior vice president of commercial operations at Roche Molecular Diagnostics. T2 Biosystems also announced that Michael Cima, Adrian Jones, and Stanley Lapidus will be leaving the firm's board of directors.

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