Roy Fiebiger was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Costa Sevastopoulos was elected chairman of the board...of Cambridge, Mass., elected Garo Armen and William Flannery to its board of directors

APPOINTMENTS AND ADVANCEMENTS Cell Genesys of Foster City, Calif., named Daniel Hoth senior vice president and chief operating officer, a newly created position

Also in the March 17 edition, David Rovee's name was spelled incorrectly as part of the Appointments and Advancements column...BioWorld regrets the errors and always strives to correct and clarify when necessary. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

He was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Centocor Inc...Buchi held various financial and accounting positions at E.I DuPont de Nemours Co...as director of chemistry, and Kozlowski came to Geron from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., where he was project director of the cell-based screening group

He is professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio

Carl Peck, former director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, was elected to the board of directors of GenPharm International Inc...has named two new vice presidents: Arthur Goldberg and Leonard Lachman...Gaeta was with Cytel Corp as director of chemistry, and Kozlowski came to Geron from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co

Krawiec was director of investor relations and corporate communications at Idec Pharmaceuticals Corp...His previous positions included corporate vice president and president of the Sorenson Research Division of Abbott Laboratories and senior vice president at United Research Inc

Peter Staple was named vice president and general counsel of Alza Corp...Before joining the Palo Alto, Calif., company, he was vice president and associate general counsel of Chiron Corp...Smith was senior vice president and chief operating officer of Digital Equipment Corp. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Jere Goyan, who had been acting CEO of the Northvale, N.J., company will remain as Alteon's president and chief operating officer

Daniel Omstead was named senior vice president of research and development at CytoTherapeutics Inc...Aastrom Biosciences of Ann Arbor, Mich., has named Lynda Dreiling vice president and chief financial officer...Jack Bowman, retiring company group chairman of Johnson & Johnson, and Robert Swanson, chairman of the board of Genentech Inc., have been appointed to the newly created business advisory board of Geron Inc

David Jackson has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Affinity Biotech Inc...of Shrewsbury, N.J., has named Richard Bauer president and chief executive officer, replacing Patrick McBrayer, who will continue as a company director

Somesh Sharma, a co-founder and vice president of research at Anergen Inc., will leave the Redwood City, Calif., company for personal reasons effective Jan. 31...Separately, Anergen named to its board of directors Harry Penner, president and chief executive officer of Neurogen Corp., and Bruce Carter, president of ZymoGenetics Inc. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Schilling was director of the Protein Structure Laboratory and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis...McMahon was director of molecular oncology at the Sandoz Research Institute and Hayes was patent attorney for Berlex Biosciences, a division of Berlex Laboratories...of Worcester, Mass., has appointed Paul Bleicher director of clinical affairs and Parrish Galliher director of manufacturing development

and president of the East Setauket, N.Y., company's wound-care business...He will become president and chief executive officer of IVF America Inc., a health-care company. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Mark Citron has been named vice president of regulatory affairs and quality assurance at BioSurface Technology Inc...of West Trenton, N.J., has named William Montgomery manager of business development and promoted John Ceccoli to assistant director of computer- assisted information services...Ceccoli was manager of image processing at the company and Montgomery was industry accounts manager, information systems, at DuPont Medical Products. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

of Cambridge, Mass., has named James Tobin president and chief operating officer...Tobin was president and chief operating officer of Baxter International Inc...He was chief of the Bacterial Products Division in the Bureau of Biologics Drugs Directorate at the Health Protection Branch of Health and Welfare Canada. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Cytogen Corp. of Princeton, N.J., has named James Knill vice president of medical affairs. He was previously senior adviser to the Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Institute. R. Ray Cummings was appointed vice president of business development at Celtrix Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. He was director of corporate licensing at G.D. Searle & Co. Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has promoted Linda Wudl to vice president of quality assurance from director of quality control. she

Collins, who was executive vice president and president of Medtronic International, is filling a position that has been vacant since 1991...Kathleen Stafford was named vice president and chief financial officer at Onyx Pharmaceuticals of Richmond, Calif...since 1989 and chief financial officer of Amgen Development Corp

of Toronto has appointed Christopher Plaxton executive vice president and Gregory Svanas operations officer...Turner was president and chief executive officer of Princeton Diagnostic Laboratories of America...Anthony Nicholls, president and chief executive officer of Trinity Biotech of Dublin, Ireland, has been elected chairman of the board, replacing Denis Burger, who is retiring as chairman