US President Barack Obama has nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his candidate to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
John Chiminski has been appointed president and chief executive at Catalent Pharma Solutions. Chiminski served most recently as president and CEO of GE Medical Diagnostics.
Contract manufacturing and generic drug company ANI Pharmaceuticals has appointed drug industry veteran Arthur Przybyl as its new CEO. Most recently, Przybyl was the president and CEO of Akorn Inc.
UK-headquartered contract research organisation Chiltern has appointed Jane Turner to the post of director, late phase, Europe.
Dean Rodwell has joined Medicilon/MPI Preclinical Research - the joint venture between MPI Research of the US and Shanghai Medicilon of China - as president and chief operating officer.
Institute of Clinical Research (India), Health has appointed Dr. Hari Gautam as senior advisor.
AMRI has promoted chief financial officer Mark Frost to the new post of senior vice president, administration and chief financial officer.
Jérôme Contamine has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer at drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis.
Bristol-Myers Squibb has named Lamberto Andreotti as its new president and chief operating officer.
BioStorage Technologies, which provides long- and short-term storage of biomaterials, sample management and cold chain logistics services, has promoted Lori Ball to the newly-created role of senior vice president.
Alex Azar, currently senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications at Eli Lilly, will assume the leadership role in the drugmaker's US business-to-business organisation.
Stemedica Cell Technologies has appointed Carl Bullen as director of manufacturing, responsible for manufacturing systems and procedures at the firm's San Diego-based manufacturing facility.
Healthcare communications agency Discovery Chicago has promoted Lisa Bance to the position of managing director.