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December 22, 2011

OpGen Announces New Management Team to Accelerate Development and Commercialization Strategy

OpGen, a provider of rapid, accurate genomic and DNA analysis systems and services, announced Vadim Sapiro as the new chief information officer along with several new appointments of key members of the executive committee. The new management team is supposed to help the company accelerate its development and commercialization strategy.

Sapiro will be responsible for leading the development of OpGen's bioinformatics applications, software, databases and information technology operations. Sapiro previously worked for SAIC (News - Alert)-Frederick as a senior vice president.

Richard Moore was promoted to chief scientific officer and will be responsible for leading the R&D organization and scientific collaborations with the genetics research, public health and clinical research communities. Nick Stiso was named vice president of manufacturing operations and is responsible for all manufacturing operations of OpGen's Argus Whole Genome Mapping System, consumables and reagents kits. Judy Macemon was named vice president of marketing and is responsible for OpGen's product portfolio management commercial strategies and tactics.

OpGen claimed that its powerful technology dramatically improves the quality of data and time-to-results by providing sequence information from single molecules of DNA many times faster and less expensively than currently possible. Applications for assembling large genomes such as humans, plants and animals have been developed and are expected to be introduced soon.

“Vadim brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in information management and analysis to OpGen and will be focused on accelerating the commercialization of our portfolio of applications and tools for the sequence assembly, finishing and analysis markets,” said Doug White, chief executive officer of OpGen, in a press release.

OpGen added that the recent management team appointments and promotions will positively position the company for commercial success and its next phase of growth.

In other news, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and OpGen announced publication of findings by the WRAIR that indicate a breakthrough in malaria research.

The company said malaria affects over 250 million people, resulting in one million deaths each year and is considered a critical global health threat (WHO 2010 World Malaria Report). The team at WRAIR identified new areas of genetic variation in a multidrug-resistant malaria strain and reference sequence strains used in vaccine development, potentially identifying DNA associated with resistance and immune response.



Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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