PharmaDiagnostics appoints director of assay development

Former pharma department head joins Belgian firm

PharmaDiagnostics, a developer of label-free screening technology that does not require specialised instrumentation, has appointed Dr Sylviane Boucharens as director of assay development. She joins from Merck’s MSD site in Newhouse, Scotland, where she was head of global compound repository and in vitro screening.

Boucharens will play a central role in driving the growth of PharmaDiagnostics’ assay product range, and in developing business globally. She worked at Merck from 2000 to 2011. She started her career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1995 when she joined the Immunology Department in the Laboratoires Fournier (Dijon, France).

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