BioVex, Orexo, Epix Pharmaceuticals and DSM - People on the move
the move in the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Biotech firm BioVex has appointed Thaddeus Pullano as vice president of quality assurance, taking over as the company pushes forward with plans for its Woburn manufacturing facility. Prior to his new position, Pullano held senior QA positions at Acambis, Transkaryotic Therapies and Wyeth. Swedish firm Orexo has also made changes in its quality team, appointing Anne Marie Ciupitu as head of QA/QC and Christina Ståhl vice president of regulatory affairs at the company. Ciupitu formerly held the position of quality assurance manager for Wyeth Biotech in Sweden, and Ståhl worked in clinical development and regulatory affairs with Roche, AstraZeneca and Pharmacia among others. The company also appointed Mats Enriksson as vice president of research and clinical development and medical director. Yet another appointment in QA has been announced this week, with Margaret Uprichard moving to the role of senior vice president of regulatory affairs and quality at Epix Pharmaceuticals. Uprichard joins Epix from Point Therapeutics, having previously also held positions in the oncology and rheumatology/immunology divisions at Pfizer. Ingredients firm DSM has announced a shuffle at the top, with three new management appointments. Jos Schneiders is taking over from Frans Pistorius as president of DSM Netherlands and DSM Limburg, moving over from his current position as president of the company's animal nutrition and health business. Leendert Staal is moving away from DSM's pharmaceutical products group to take over as president of the company's nutritional products group. Staal will be replaced by Bob Hartmayer, who will become business group director of the DSM pharmaceutical products business, leaving his previous role as head of the company's elastomers division. All three appointments will take effect on January 1 2008, with handovers taking place at the end of this year.
