Cell Therapeutics Inc., of Seattle, promoted Jade Brown to executive vice president and chief business officer, and Scott Stromatt to executive vice president, clinical development and regulatory affairs

Senetek plc, of Napa, Calif., appointed Michael Kloury and Rani Aliahmad to its board...Topigen Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Montreal, appointed John Mohr chief business officer

Advanced Magnetics Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., appointed Joseph Farmer general counsel and vice president of legal affairs...Cellular Genomics Inc., of Branford, Conn., appointed Peter Fuller chief business officer

Avigen Inc., of Alameda, Calif., appointed Michael Coffee chief business officer...HTG Inc., of Tucson, Ariz., appointed Daniel Von Hoff and Raymond Woosley to its scientific advisory board

Inc., of Blue Bell, Pa., appointed John Cullen senior vice president and general counsel...Vitae Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Fort Washington, Pa., appointed Alex Howarth chief business officer

ActivBiotics Inc., of Lexington, Mass., appointed Glenn Kazo chief business officer...Aegera Therapeutics Inc., of Montreal, appointed William Peters and Lennie Ryer to its board...Members are Timothy Henry, Robert Simari and Byron Williams

Biophage Pharma , of Montreal, appointed Richard Sherman chairman and Bruce Schmidt chief business officer...Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc. , of Lexington, Mass., promoted Noah Beerman to executive vice president and chief business officer, and John Tucker to executive vice president of sales and marketing

Vasomedical Inc., of Westbury, N.Y., appointed Thomas Glover president and CEO...Ltd., of Tokyo, appointed John Wulf chief business officer, as well as president of its U.S. subsidiary

Nautilus Biotech, of Paris, appointed Silvano Fumero chairman and William Respess to its board...NitroMed Inc., of Lexington, Mass., appointed Lawrence Bloch chief financial officer and chief business officer

and Jinsam You, Tony Tegeler and Dariusz Janecki to its scientific team...and Howard Simon senior vice president of human resources and associated general counsel

Eyetech Pharmaceuticals Inc., appointed Michael Regan and Phillip Satow to its board...Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Richmond, Calif., appointed Edward Kenney executive vice president and chief business officer

BioVeris Corp. , of Gaithersburg, Md., appointed John Quinn and William Crowley to its board...Senomyx Inc., of La Jolla, Calif., appointed John Poyhonen chief financial and business officer

Orexo AB, of Uppsala, Sweden, appointed Zsolt Lavotha president and CEO...Rinat Neuroscience Corp., of Palo Alto, Calif., appointed David Pritchard chief business officer and Patricia Ann Walicke vice president of clinical development

BioTrove Inc., of Woburn, Mass., appointed Patrick Caroll chief business officer...Xcellerex LLC, of Marlborough, Mass., appointed Susan Dexter chief business officer of contract manufacturing

Dynavax Technologies Corp., of Berkeley, Calif., appointed Kevin Kwok vice president and chief business officer, and Denise Gilbert to its board

Caliper Life Sciences Inc., of Hopkinton, Mass., elected Kathryn Tunstall and Edgar Cummins to its board...Can-Fite Biopharma Ltd., of Petach-Tikvah, Israel, appointed Ashleigh Palmer chief business officer in charge of U.S...DOR BioPharma Inc., of Miami, appointed James Kuo and Stuart Sedlack to its board

Xcyte Therapies Inc., of Seattle, appointed Robert Kirkman chief business officer and vice president

The company also added Giuseppe Dastoli as vice president of business and commercial operations in Europe and Silvia Comis will be responsible for clinical development in Europe...Cenix BioScience GmbH, of Dresden, Germany, added Zisi Fotey as chief business officer...Chiron Corp., of Emeryville, Calif., said Howard Pien, president and CEO, was elected to the board of California Healthcare Institute

Predix Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Woburn, Mass., added Chen Schor as chief business officer...and Patti Ketchner to vice president and corporate controller