Applied Microbiology
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Names former Exec VP-Scientific Affairs and Business Development Peter Blackburn, PhD, to president and chief operating officer. Blackburn, who has been with the company since 1985, is responsible for structuring and negotiating strategic alliances with Astra/Merck and SmithKline Beecham, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based biopharmaceutical company said. The Applied Microbiology board of directors is in the midst of a search for a new chief executive officer; current Chairman and CEO David Guttman has announced his intention to resign from the CEO position. The company plans to move into a new 15,000-square-foot headquarters and laboratory facility in Northvale, N.J. this summer
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