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Exosome Diagnostics Appoints Former Roche Executive Greg Zdechlik as Chief Operating Officer

Zdechlik was Founding member of the U.S. Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Group NEW YORK, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Exosome Diagnostics, Inc., the developer of non-invasive molecular oncology diagnostics to aid in early cancer detection and therapeutic selection, announc...

Jesup & Lamont Announces Presenting LifeTech Companies and Former FDA Commissioner at Annual Growth Stock & National Sales Conference

NEW YORK, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jesup & Lamont, Inc., (Amex: JLI ), a full-service boutique brokerage and investment banking firm serving retail and institutional clients, today announced the LifeTech Capital Group companies presenting at its 2009 Growth Stock & National Sale...

Cliff Consulting, Inc. Adds Former Banking IT Executive Ashok Moorthy to Its Team

OAKLAND, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Marin resident and former Wells Fargo Executive Vice President Ashok Moorthy has joined Cliff Consulting, Inc., ( http://www.cliffconsulting.net ), a local firm that provides highly experienced project leadership to corporations and non-profits through...

Lakewood-Amedex, Inc. Appoints William J. Robison, Former Executive Vice President of Pfizer, as Board Member

SARASOTA, Fla., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Lakewood-Amedex, Inc., (L-A), the anti-infectives biopharmaceutical company developing a unique portfolio of anti-bacterial and anti-viral products including NuBiotics(R), a novel family of synthetic anti-bacterial compounds, announced today the appointment...

Micromet Adds Former Head of Roche Oncology Kapil Dhingra, MD to Board of Directors

BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI ), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, today announced that Dr. Kapil Dhingra has joined its Board of Directors, effective as ...

Cyntellect Appoints Former Millipore and BD Biosciences Executives to Head Up its Product Marketing Efforts

New hires bring over 25 years of life sciences marketing experience to Cyntellect SAN DIEGO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyntellect, a privately-held life sciences company leading the development and commercialization of live cell analysis and manipulation systems, announced today that it ...

Cyntellect Appoints Former BD Biosciences Executive Andre Lubarsky as Director of Sales - North America

New hire brings over 20 years of commercial life sciences sales experience to Cyntellect SAN DIEGO, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyntellect, a privately-held life sciences company leading the development and commercialization of live cell analysis and manipulation systems, announced today that...

Cynvec LLC(SM) Appoints Former Johnson & Johnson Executive Frank D. Stonebanks as President and Chief Executive Officer

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Cynvec LLC, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel cancer therapies that harness the apoptotic ability of the Sindbis viral vector, announced today that it has appointed Frank D. Stonebanks President and Chief Executive Officer,...

Kendle Reappoints Former CFO Timothy M. Mooney to Board of Directors

Mooney Brings Wealth of Finance, Accounting and Industry Experience to Kendle Board CINCINNATI, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kendle (Nasdaq: KNDL ), a leading, global full-service clinical research organization, today announced the reappointment of Timothy M...

Shire Successfully Settles Former TKT Shareholder Appraisal Rights Litigation

PHILADELPHIA and DUBLIN, November 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that it has successfully settled all pending litigation in connection with former dissenting shareholders of Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc...

Dynamic Signs Asset Acquisition Deal With Cannex and Brings Onboard Leading Medical Cannabis Research Scientist Dr. Robert Melamede, Former Chairman of the Biology Department, University of Colorado

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dynamic Alert Limited (OTC Bulletin Board: DYMC) (the "Company") is an emerging biotechnology leader specializing in the commercialization of medical cannabis-based pharmaceutical products. Today the Company is pleased to announce it has signed ...

Cliff Consulting, Inc. Adds Two Influential Former Executives to Its Team - Banker Mary P. Carryer and Healthcare IT Leader Robert Goldstein

OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Former banking executive Mary P. Carryer and former healthcare IT executive Robert Goldstein have joined Cliff Consulting, Inc., ( http://www.cliffconsulting.net ). Cliff Consulting (CCI) provides highly experienced project leadership to corporations and...

Insmed Partners With Bill Thomas, Former House Ways and Means Chairman, as Strategic Advisor

Thomas Will Focus on Strategies to Promote Legislative Pathway for Follow-On Biologics RICHMOND, Va., July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Insmed Inc. (Nasdaq: INSM), a developer of follow-on biologics and biopharmaceuticals for unmet medical needs, today announced tha...

ADVENTRX Settles Dispute With Former Licensee

SAN DIEGO, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: ANX ) today announced that it settled its dispute with Theragenex, LLC and its Chairman and President and Chief Executive Officer for payments aggregating $600,000, which payments the Company has received in fu...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Address Senate Special Committee on Aging, Calling for Urgent Action Against Alzheimer's Disease

The Alzheimer's Study Group Outlines a National Plan WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich presented testimony to a special hearing of the U.S. Senate Special Committee...

SURGEX(TM) Becomes the Official Sports Nutrition Drink of Former NBA Player Dee Brown and his Edge Basketball Training Facility

Another Top Flight Sport's Training Institute joins the SURGEX(TM) Team BASKING RIDGE, N.J., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Biotechnologies Inc., wholly-owned subsidiary of Millennium Biotechnologies Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MBTG), announced today that SURGEX(TM) has become the of...

Campbell Alliance Adds Doug Linton, Former Cardinal Health Executive, to Executive Advisory Group

RALEIGH, N.C., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Campbell Alliance, the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, today announced that Doug Linton has joined its Executive Advisory Group. The group is made up of industry professionals brought together b...

Startech Environmental to Have Three Plasma Converters in Former Pharmaceutical Industry Facility in Puerto Rico

WILTON, Conn., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Startech Environmental Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting, Award-winning Environment and Energy Company, announced today that the EnviroSafe Industrial Services Corporation of San Juan, Puerto Rico has expanded its original pla...

DaVita Announces Retirement of Former Chief Medical Officer Charles J. McAllister, M.D.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney failure and disease, today announced its former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Charles J. McAllister, M.D. will retire effective April 1, 2008. Dr. McA...

Statement by InterMune, Inc. Regarding Justice Department Action Against Former Employee for Past Conduct

BRISBANE, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InterMune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITMN ) issued the following statement regarding today's indictment of a former employee in connection with the promotional activities for Actimmune(R) (interferon gamma-1b) during a period that ended in June of 2003...

John E. Leonard, Ph.D., Former Biogen Idec Antibody Development Executive, Joins the Scientific Advisory Board of Vaccinex, Inc.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaccinex, Inc. announced today that Dr. John E. Leonard has joined its Scientific Advisory Board, and will be actively involved in the strategic planning and execution of the company's therapeutic antibody development programs. Dr. Leonard has over 20...

Molecular Diagnostics Leader AdvanDx Taps Former Dako Executive Vice President to Lead Global Sales and Marketing Expansion

WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvanDx announced it has named Else Beth Trautner, a former Executive Vice President of Dako A/S, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Ms. Trautner will aggressively drive the global adoption of AdvanDx's fast, accurate and easy-to-use in vitro molec...

Leading DHA Expert and Former NIH Researcher, Dr. Norman Salem, Jr., to Join Martek as Chief Scientific Officer

COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Martek Biosciences Corporation (Nasdaq: MATK ), a DHA omega-3 market leader, announced today that leading DHA researcher and expert Dr. Norman Salem, Jr., will be joining Martek Biosciences on February 4, 2008, as vice president and chief scien...

Seahorse Bioscience Appoints Former Molecular Devices Executive Dr. Joseph D. Keegan to Board of Directors

New Board Member Brings Life Sciences Tools Experience to the Leader in Cellular Bioenergetic Profiling N. BILLERICA, Mass., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Seahorse Bioscience, the leading provider of tools for real-time measurement of cellular bioenergetics in microplates, announc...

Kendle Appoints Former MHRA Head of Biologics as Principal Regulatory Affairs Consultant

Addition of Timothy Forsey, PhD, Further Strengthens Kendle's Global Regulatory Affairs Organization CINCINNATI, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kendle (Nasdaq: KNDL ), a leading, global full-service clinical research organization, today announced that Timothy Forsey, P...

David Barker, Former Illumina CSO, Joins GenVault's Scientific Advisory Board

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- GenVault Corporation today announces that industry expert David Barker Ph.D. has joined its Scientific Advisory Board. In his role on the board, Dr. Barker will provide scientific guidance facilitating GenVault's entry into new biosample management ma...

Online aid group taps former Wisconsin governor McCallum

Aidmatrix , a non-profit in Texas that helps match charitable corporate donations with organizations that need them, has named former Wisconsin governor Scott McCallum its president and CEO. The non-profit was begun in 2000 through a software donation from I2 Technologies , a supply-chain soft...

PDS hires new VP, buys former health club building

Madison, Wis. Paragon Development Systems (PDS) has hired a new vice president as it plans to expand its presence in Madison into a new building. The company which maintains offices in Oconomowoc, Brookfield and Madison designs, builds and manages IT infrastructure and services for medium...

Searle spirit lives on in Chicago as alumni celebrate at former home

Back on May 12, 2003, I wrote on an article on "The Final Death Knell of Chicago's G.D. Searle". At that juncture, the writing was on the walls of the demise of Searle due to the latest Pfizer announcement of closing down the final remaining Searle facilities in Chicago. Since then, the Searle na...

New book from former CDC CEO walks readers through innovation

MINNEAPOLIS - I recently interviewed Robert M. Price about his book "The Eye For Innovation: Recognizing Possibilities and Managing the Creative Enterprise". This column includes his comments about business, strategy, innovation and "the `C' word". "At its most basic level," he writes, "busines...

Genzyme sues former Bone Care employees

Madison, Wis. - Saying former employees began to develop Bone Care International's trade secrets into new products, the Boston-based company that purchased Bone Care in 2005 is suing three former BCI employees and their new company, Cytochroma, Inc . Genzyme Corp . filed the suit in United ...

Kyron appoints former AMA chairman to board

Wauwatosa, Wis. - A Milwaukee-area brain imaging software producer has welcomed an experienced medical leader to its board of directors. Dr. Timothy Flaherty, former chairman of the American Medical Association and one of the world's top radiologists, has joined Kyron Clinical Imaging, Inc...

UW scientist, former WiCell director found stem cell company

Madison, Wis. - It's not too early to gauge the level of investor interest in Stemina Biomarker Discovery, Inc., a new company formed by Beth Donley and University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell scientist Gabriela Cezar. Donley already is rubbing elbows with interested investors, particularl...

KV Pharmaceutical Announces Stockholder Action to Amend By-Laws is Invalid

...dule 13D disclosing their beneficial ownership of the Company's Class B Common Stock. Such Reporting Persons included Marc S. Hermelin, the Company's former chief executive officer and a current member of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board"), David S. Hermelin, a member of the Board and the son o...

SCOLR Pharma, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... a reduction in personnel related expenses due to personnel reductions. These decreases were offset by an expense related to settlement of claims by a former employee. General and administrative expenses decreased 8%, or $89,762 to $972,884 for the three months ended June 30, 2009, compared to $1.1...

Novavax Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...eneral and administrative functions of $0.1 million, and a $0.1 million decrease in charges to the allowance established for two notes receivable from former directors. The balance of the decrease is attributable to a decrease in professional fees. Novavax recorded net interest and other expense of ...

ThermoGenesis Provides Update on Fiscal 2009 Results

... 60 BMC ("Res-Q") System , $0.4 million in costs related to AXP device and disposable design enhancements and the write down of excess inventories at former AXP manufacturers, and $0.2 million in severance charges. In a separate press release today the Company announced that its Res-Q System, a poin...

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...ties which are classified as long-term investments. Additionally, in July 2009, the Company received $2.75 million of cash from a settlement with the former licensor of Sulonex (sulodexide). The Company will receive an additional $750,000 on or before July 30, 2010 related to this settlement. The n...

PDI Reports 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results

...excess office space in the Company's Marketing Services business in 2009 and the impact of $0.7 million in costs associated with the retirement of our former Chief Executive Officer in 2008, 2009 operating expenses were $1.0 million, or 9%, lower than 2008. This decline is primarily attributable to the Comp...

Knighted Adds Industry Pioneer and Entrepreneur to Senior Management Team

...PRNewswire/ -- Knighted Computer Systems, Inc. (Knighted), a leading provider of Supply Chain Execution software, today announced that Craig Wilensky, former founder and board member of InfoLogix, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFLG ) has joined Knighted as Executive Vice President and Partner of the company. "Mr. ...