Creative Bioinformatics Consultants Taps Gataca’s Solutions for NGS Projects

Ruby Gadelrab has been named vice president of commercial marketing for 23andMe. Gadelrab most recently served as head of marketing and commercial development at Invitae, and prior to that had worked at Affymetrix, where she most recently served as head of international marketing and clinical development. She also has worked at Life Technologies, Dharmacon, and AbGene.

Luminex President and CEO Patrick Balthrop has retired, the firm announced this week. His retirement is effective immediately, as is his retirement from the firm's board of directors. He has been succeeded as president and CEO by Nachum Shamir, who is expected to be invited to join Luminex's board of directors.

Shamir most recently served as president and CEO of Given Imaging, which was acquired by Covidien earlier this year. He previously was president of Eastman Kodak's transaction and industrial solutions business. He also was president and CEO of Scitex.

Rubicon Genomics has hired Karl Hecker as vice president of product development. Previously, he was a principal scientist at HTG Molecular Diagnostics. He has also held positions at Quidel, PerkinElmer, Invitrogen, and Transgenomic.

RainDance Technologies has named John Luckey as its new vice president of product development.

Luckey has held senior product and platform development positions at companies such as Roche NimbleGen, where he directed research and development activities for improving and expanding the company's core DNA microarray synthesis technology and related instrumentation; and MJ Research, where he contributed to the design and development of the Opticon product family and Opticon Monitor software. While at Roche, he also liaised with 454 Life Sciences development teams and participated on the global team tasked with defining a strategy to apply next-generation sequencing technology to clinical diagnostics.

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Creative Bioinformatics Consultants Taps Gataca's Solutions for NGS Projects