Aeterna Zentaris Inc., of Quebec City, appointed David A. Dodd president and CEO...Astellas Pharma Inc., of Tokyo, named Songlin Xue head of global pharmacovigilance, and he will be based in the Northbrook, Ill., office...Zosano Pharma Inc., of Fremont, Calif., named Chris Krueger chief business officer and added Kleanthis G. Xanthopoulos to its board

Anergis, of Eplinges, Switzerland, named Gilles Della Corte director of clinical development and Eva Castagnetti director of product development...Curis Inc., of Lexington, Mass., appointed Ali Fattaey president and chief operating officer...Mylan Inc., of Pittsburgh, added Melina Higgins and Rajiv Malik to its board

Protea Biosciences Inc., of Morgantown, W. Va., added Thijs Spoor and Josiah T. Austin to its board...Regulus Therapeutics Inc., of La Jolla, Calif., added Mark G. Foletta to its board and audit committee...Soligenix Inc., of Princeton, N.J., appointed Stephen T. Sonis, Dorothy Keefe and Mark Schubert to its newly created medical advisory board, which will deal with SGX942, its treatment for oral mucositis

Ambrx Inc., of San Diego, named Lawson Macartney president and CEO...Esperion Therapeutics Inc., of Plymouth, Mich., named Tim Mayleben president and CEO and Roger Newton executive chairman and chief scientific officer...plc, of Dublin, Ireland, added Richard T. Colllier and Shane Cooke to its board

CytoDyn Inc., of Portland, Ore., named Michael D. Mulholland chief financial officer, treasurer and corporate secretary, and added Michael Nobel and Allan Green to its board...GeNO LLC, of Waltham, Mass., named Kurt Dasse president and Barry Gellman senior vice president, engineering...IntelliCell BioSciences Inc., of New York, appointed Harry Fisch director of urology and added him to its scientific advisory board

Summit plc, of Oxford, UK, added Jim Mellon and Frank Armstrong to its board...and Justin Smith senior vice president, general manager, U.S. Rx dermatology...Verastem Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., added Alison Lawton and Michael Kauffman to its board

Blueprint Medicines, of Cambridge, Mass., appointed Chris Varma president and CEO, and named Daniel S. Lynch executive chairman of its board...HemoShear LLC, of Charlottesville, Va., added Mehmood Khan and Frederick W.K. Brown to its board

Fedora Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Edmonton, Alberta, appointed Ronald W. Odynski and Leonard E. Post to its newly created board, and named Christopher Micetich board chairman...Pharmanest AB, of Stockholm, Sweden, added Per Lango and Gunilla Ekstrom to its board, and named Alan Raffensperger board chairman

DCPrime BV, of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, named Marcel Zwaal CEO and Anthony Hall chief medical officer...Theratechnologies Inc., of Montreal, appointed Luc Tanguay interim president and CEO...Zyngenia Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., added Christian Itin and Jason Rhodes to its board

Althea Technologies Inc., of San Diego, named Rick Hancock president and CEO, Chris Duffy senior vice president of operations and E.J. Brandreth senior vice president of quality and regulatory...SpringLeaf Therapeutics Inc., of Boston, appointed Pieter Muntendam president and CEO

Named Howard Rosen vice president, sales and marketing, and Thomas Bendix Mortensen vice president, sales and marketing in Europe

he will chair the audit committee and serve on the compensation committee...Dynavax Technologies Corp., of Berkeley, Calif., named Christine Larson vice president and chief financial officer...Nile Therapeutics Inc., of San Mateo, Calif., named Darlene Horton president and CEO, and director

Caisson Biotech LLC, of Austin, Texas, appointed Glenn Nedwin CEO and president...Quanterix Corp., of Lexington, Mass., named Paul Chapman president and CEO...RXi Pharmaceuticals Corp., of Westborough, Mass., added Jeannette Graf and Leroy Young to its scientific advisory board

NovImmune SA, of Plan-Les-Ouates, Switzerland, added Michael Steinmetz to its board and appointed David Slack head of corporate and business development...Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc., of East Brunswick, N.J., appointed Louis Ferrari president and CEO...Xenetic Biosciences plc, of London, added Subash Kapre and Thomas Ulich to its scientific advisory board

Akshay Vaishnaw executive vice president and chief medical officer...and Thomas Rollins senior vice president of program and portfolio management

A.P. Pharma Inc., of Redwood City, Calif., added Barry Quart and Stephen Davis to it board...Saladax Biomedical Inc., of Bethlehem, Pa., named Kevin Harter president and CEO...Sequenom Inc., of San Diego, named Carolyn Beaver vice president and chief accounting officer

Gilead Sciences Inc., of Foster City, Calif., appointed Paul Boateng and Hannah Kettler to its health policy advisory board...Macrocure, of Petach Tikva, Israel, named Nissim Mashiach president and CEO...ViaCyte Inc., of San Diego, appointed Paul Laikind president and CEO

GenVec Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., named Cynthia Collins president and CEO...Paratek Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Boston, appointed Dennis Molnar CEO and director and Evan Loh chief medical officer and board chairman

Generex Biotechnology Corp., of Worcester, Mass., added Keith Knutson and James Mule to its scientific advisory board...PolyTherics Ltd., of London, added Anker Lundemose and Nigel Pitchford to its board...Promedior Inc., of Malvern, Pa., appointed Suzanne Bruhn president and CEO