OncoMethylome appoints new chief operating officer

Company
OncoMethylome Sciences SA
Appointee name
Gert-Jan Renardel de Lavalette
Country

Belgium

Gert-Jan Renardel de Lavalette has been appointed to the new position of chief operating officer at OncoMethylome Sciences SA effective 2 February 2009. He will focus on the development and commercialisation of the company’s molecular diagnostics products.

Mr Renardel has held management positions at Schering-Plough and Akzo Nobel during his more than 20 years in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries.

Separately, Gerard Vaillant, a veteran pharmaceutical industry executive, is scheduled to join OncoMethylome’s board of directors on 19 February, replacing Christian Schneider who is leaving to spend more time on a new European life sciences venture capital fund.

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