Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., named Mark Currie senior vice president, chief scientific officer and president of research and development

OthoCyte Corp., a subsidiary of BioTime Inc., of Alameda, Calif., appointed Francois Binette vice president of research and business development...Pharmanest AB, of Stockholm, Sweden, added Per Lango and Gunilla Ekstrom to its board, and named Alan Raffensperger board chairman

Synthetic Biologics Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich., named Andrew Bristol vice president of research and development and Michael Kaleko senior vice president of research and development

N30 Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Boulder, Colo., named Sherif Gabriel vice president of research...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

ADC Therapeutics sarl, of Lausanne, Switzerland, appointed Patrick van Berkel senior vice president of research and development...Curemark LLC, of Rye, N.Y., named Matthew Heil chief scientific officer and James Szigethy vice president of research and product development

NanoSmart Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Laguna Hills, Calif., named Paul Glidden vice president of research and development...Paratek Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Boston, appointed Dennis Molnar CEO and director and Evan Loh chief medical officer and board chairman

and Alexander H. Burgess as vice president of marketing...aTyr Pharma, of San Diego, added Jeffrey Greve as vice president of research and Andrew Cubitt as vice president of intellectual property

Co-founder Douglas P. Clark was named chief medical officer and acting CEO, effective July 1...Compass Biotechnologies Inc., of Edmonton, Alberta, appointed Joseph Sinkule president and chief operating officer...Cytochroma Inc., of Markham, Ontario, appointed Cynthia Lavoie and Osamu Otani to its board

Actelion Ltd., of Allschwil, Switzerland, nominated Jean-Pierre Garnier and Robert Bertolini to its board...Aileron Therapeutics Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., appointed Anthony M. Manning senior vice president of research and preclinical development and named Yong S. Chang head of biology

The firm also named Lori M. Henderson vice president, general counsel and secretary...Anadys Pharmaceuticals Inc., of San Diego, named Kevin L. Eastwood senior vice president of corporate development, promoted James Appleman to senior vice president of research and chief scientific officer, appointed James L. Freddo to the board and named Stelios Papadopoulos chairman

Celtaxys Inc., of Atlanta, named Michael Hanley CEO and chairman...Cytomedix Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., formed a scientific advisory board with the appointments of Marissa Carter, Jean de Leon, Vickie R. Driver, Peter A. M. Everts, Will W. Li and Thomas E. Serena...Foundation Medicine Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., appointed Maureen T. Cronin senior vice president of research and product development

AVI BioPharma Inc., of Bothell, Wash., added Graham Johnson as senior vice president of preclinical development and research, named Patrick Iversen senior vice president of research and innovation and appointed Ryszard Kole senior vice president and AVI distinguished scientist

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, appointed Csaba Szabo vice president of research and chief scientific officer

He previously served as the national vice president of research programs at the American Diabetes Association...Most recently, Duddu was general manager and vice president of worldwide drug delivery technologies at CIMA Labs Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cephalon Inc., of Frazer, Pa

Allegro Diagnostics, of Boston, appointed Duncan Whitney vice president of research and development

Curemark, of Rye N.Y., named Matthew F. Heil senior vice president of research and development...QLT Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, named Dipak Panigrahi senior vice president of research and development and chief medical officer

Organovo Inc., of San Diego, appointed Marie Csete executive vice president of research and development

Traversa Therapeutics Inc., of San Diego, appointed Curt W. Bradshaw vice president of research and development...YM BioSciences Inc., of Mississauga, Ontario, added Rogerio C. Lilenbaum and Minesh Mehta to its U.S

GeoVax Labs Inc., of Atlanta, appointed Mark J. Newman vice president of research and development