Dendreon Corp., of Seattle, promoted Mitchell Gold to chief business officer and Deborah Elvins to vice president of legal affairs...QLT Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, appointed Bill Newell senior vice president and chief business officer

Variagenics Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., promoted Joseph Mohr to president and chief business officer and named Richard Shea chief operating officer

Affymax Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., appointed Helen Kim chief business officer...AnVil Inc., of Burlington, Mass., named Kurt Thearling director, engineering, and Natasha Markuzon informatics scientist

Genaera Corp., of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., appointed David Jarosz executive vice president and chief business officer and promoted Kenneth Holroyd to executive vice president and chief operating officer

Genaera Corp., of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., appointed David Jarosz executive vice president and chief business officer and promoted Kenneth Holroyd to executive vice president and chief operating officer...Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Baltimore, appointed David Wright president and chief business officer

Sagres Discovery Inc., of Davis, Calif., added David Ichikawa as chief business officer...Serologicals Corp., of Atlanta, said its CEO and president, David Dodd, was elected chairman of the Georgia Biomedical Partnership

Amgen Inc., of Thousand Oaks, Calif., elected Frank Biondi and Patricia Sueltz to its board...GeneFormatics Inc., of San Diego, added Vincent Gotz as chief business officer

Synaptica Ltd., of Oxford, UK, appointed Steven Butcher research director and a member of its management board...Venture Investment Management Corp., of Boston, appointed Dana Ono and David Marcus directors...ZymoGenetics Inc., of Seattle, appointed Robert Whitehead senior vice president, chief business officer, and also a member of the executive management committee

Neurome Inc., of La Jolla, Calif., appointed Paul Greengard and Leslie Iversen to its scientific advisory board...Syrrx Inc., of San Diego, appointed William Ettouati chief business officer

The company also appointed Mike Grey chief business officer and a member of its board

SuperGen Inc., of Dublin, Calif., named Edward Jacobs chief business officer and chief financial officer

First Business Trust Inc., of Chicago, appointed Bruce Maloff chief business officer, added Kenneth Dammers as director of regulatory affairs and quality assurance and named Ruth Papazian director of content and communications

Zyomyx Inc., of Hayward, Calif., appointed Nicholas Naclerio senior vice president and chief business officer

Also, it promoted William Mikrut and added Terry Murdock, both as vice president, clinical operations...Lorantis Ltd., of London, appointed Karl Schaffenburg chief business officer

Structural GenomiX Inc., of San Diego, appointed Bill Rutter and Stelios Papadopoulos to its board...and added Christoph Adams as senior vice president, business development...Xencor Inc., of Monrovia, Calif., added William Radany as chief business officer and Joyce Morrison as vice president, intellectual property

Biocept Inc., of Carlsbad, Calif., added Charlotte Clark as chief business officer and executive vice president

AltaRex Corp., of Waltham, Mass., appointed Bruce Brydon and Jacques Lapointe to its board...British Biotech plc, of Oxford, England, promoted Tim Edwards to chief business officer

Magainin Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., appointed Michael Yoshitsu vice president, business development and promoted Kenneth Holroyd to executive vice president and chief business officer...and Premchandran Ramiya director of process research and development

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc., of Jerusalem and Boston, appointed Wilson Totten and Malcolm Hoenlein to its board...MitoKor, of San Diego, appointed Ronald Deane chief business officer, Neil Howell vice president of research, Craig Johnson chief financial officer and Andrew Milner general manager of MitoKor's Australian subsidiary, Mimotopes