Philippe Lacaille, formerly vice president and general manager of Pharmacia AB, has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of IAF BioChem International Inc. (NASDAQ:BCHXF), a Laval, Quebec, developer of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostic products...Kazuhiro Hashimoto, director of research and development and a member of the board of Zenyaku Kogyo Co

Magee will now supervise clinical and regulatory affairs as well as R&D. James T. Ryaby, formerly a graduate research associate at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, will become director of research...Steven S. Cowell has resigned as vice president and controller of Cetus...to become vice president and chief financial officer of Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AGPH), a La Jolla, Calif

Jack Vaughn and Michael Viguerie have been named to the board at Imre Corp. (NASDAQ:IMRE), a Seattle developer and producer of technology for treating blood outside the body...and Cashavelly was previously a product manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co

Barry W. Steiger has joined MGI Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: MOGN), a Minneapolis developer and marketer of pharmaceuticals, as vice president of medical affairs...Bannister, formerly of the corporate and financial relations group for Regis McKenna Inc., will be responsible for investor, media and community relations

Brown had been a financial consultant to clients in manufacturing and distribution in the toy, government contracting and wholesale wine and spirits industry. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

APPOINTMENTS AND ADVANCEMENTS ALZA CREATES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT UNITS Alza Corp. (ASE:AZA) of Palo Alto, Calif., announced several organizational changes, including senior management promotions...and Dr. David Swanson and Dr. Pat Wong, oral products

Brown and Goldstein are also both members of Regeneron's scientific advisory board...Calgene of Davis, Calif., develops and markets improved plant products and varieties...Patrick A. McBrayer, president and chief operating officer, will act as chief executive officer until O'Connell is able to resume his duties. -- Jeff Hutkoff (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Ksionski, former vice president and medical director of Vestar Inc., will direct clinical development and registration of all LTI products...Thomas Cekoric, former president of API and Oxford Labware Divisions of Sherwood Medical/American Home products, has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Zynazis Cell Science Inc., a Malvern, Pa., developer of human disease diagnostics and therapeutics

He had been executive vice president and general manager at O'Brien Pharmaceuticals...He had been general partner and CFO at CW Group, a venture capital firm...He is chairman and chief executive of Osteotech Inc

research and development arm of Affymax, as scientific director and president...Ptashne, a co-founder of GI and a board member since 1980, resigned for personal reasons but will remain on GI's scientific advisory board

Bobkoski had been president and chief executive at GalenPharma Inc., a developer of pharmaceuticals for neurological indications...Fisher, professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of pediatrics and medicine, replaces Wayne C. Patterson, who joined the consulting firm of King, Chapman, Broussard and Gallagher in Denver

Sandra S. Hillman and Donald E. OLNeill have been elected to the board of Nova Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ:NOVX) of Baltimore, a developer of drugs and drug delivery systems focusing on central nervous system disorders and inflammation...Timms is president and chief executive of Glycomed Inc

Abbott, an attorney, is executive vice president and Thompson is executive vice president and director of research...Before joining Telios, Jordanov was vice president of process science and manufacturing at Cholestech Corp

Collagen Corp. (NASDAQ:CGEN), a Palo Alto, Calif., developer of skin replacement and enhancement products, has added Craig Johnson, a senior member of the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, to its board of directors...Higgins cited time limitations and the relocation of the Somatix Corp

Synbiotics also promoted Lewis Ploth to chief financial officer of its UniSyn Fibertec subsidiary and appointed Michael K. Green of Price Waterhouse to CFO of its ImmunoPharmaceutics subsidiary...Gensia Pharmaceuticals Inc., a San Diego developer of acute care biopharmaceuticals, has hired Mark D. Erion, Ph.D., as director of chemistry and biochemistry...of Newton, Mass., has been named president and chief executive of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Institute, a technology transfer

of Redwood City, Calif., has added to its board Arthur Gray Jr., president and chief executive of Dreyfus Personal Management Inc., a unit of Dreyfus Corp...Ferguson is former chairman, chief executive and president of General Foods Corp...He fills one of the positions vacated by investor David Blech and the former chairman of Advanced Genetic Sciences, Joseph Bouckaert, who are not standing for re- election. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Charles J. Arntzen, Ph.D., deputy chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, has been reappointed to the National Institutes of Health National Biotechnology Board...of Baton Rouge, La., was elected vice president of the association, and William Mahaffey, vice president of technology development for Ecova Corp

APPOINTMENTS AND ADVANCEMENTS TELOR ELECTS BOARD MEMBER...MGI licenses and develops therapeutics for cancer and other diseases. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

of San Francisco, a privately held company engaged in protein separation technology, immunoassays and drug design, said it named Reinaldo Gomez, Ph.D., as president...Company founder Lawrence Kauvar, Ph.D., will continue as vice president and chief scientist...of Vancouver, British Columbia, a waste treatment concern, said it has named John Reynolds chairman and chief executive of the company and its new Kam Environmental Systems Ltd