was named president and chief operating officer of Ecogen Inc...Barkin was a partner and national practice leader for health care for Peat Marwick Stevenson and Kellogg...He was vice president and partner of Merrill Lynch Venture Capital

And Laurie Peltier was named director of project management...He was president and chief executive officer of Photest Diagnostics Inc...Hycor (NASDAQ:HYBD) specializes in medical and diagnostic products

He was vice president and general manager of immunotherapy at Baxter Healthcare Corp...Young was vice president and general manager of Sepracor Inc.'s pharmaceuticals division...He was VP of finance and chief financial officer

She held positions in research and development at Temple University Hospital, the Naval Blood Research Laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota...Boston Biomedica is a manufacturer and supplier of AIDS, hepatitis and other infectious disease reagents. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

And Mitchell R. Woodbury, currently senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Intermark Inc., was named vice president, general counsel...She held business development and marketing positions at McNeil Pharmaceutical, a division of Johnson & Johnson, and Rhone- Poulenc Rorer

He was senior assistant treasurer and international treasurer at Abbott Laboratories...And William E. Vandervalk, formerly human resources manager for Key Pharmaceuticals, was named director of human resources...Elizabeth Lane, director of pharmacokinetics and regulatory affairs at PharmaKinetics Laboratories Inc., has been named a vice president

Company founder and President Howard B. Urnovitz has been named chairman and will continue as chief science officer...Jerry Caulder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Mycogen Corp., has been appointed to the newly formed Alternative Agriculture Research and Commercialization Board

David J. Gury, president and chief operating officer of North American Biologicals Inc., has been named chief executive officer...The Gaithersburg, Md., company (NASDAQ:ONCR) manufactures and develops technologies and reagents for diagnostic applications in genetic diseases and cancer

Oncor (NASDAQ:ONCR) of Gaithersburg, Md., manufactures and markets DNA probes...Penn was director of new product information and evaluations at Marion Merrell Dow...He was senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Squibb Corp

Sadow was founding president and CEO of Boehringer Ingelhiem Corp...And Joan M. Stein, previously manager of administration for the Oakland, Calif., office of CB Commercial Real Estate, was named manager of administration...Ward was vice president and director of SmithKline Beecham's Therapeutic Unit

Ferrone is a professor and chairman of the department of microbiology and immunology, and a professor in the departments of medicine and pathology at New York Medical College in Valhalla...DNX (NASDAQ:DNXX) researches and develops therapeutic products and biological testing services utilizing transgenic animals. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

senator and secretary of Health and Human Services, is president of the American Council of Life Insurance...and the division of organic chemistry at Burroughs Wellcome Co

vice president and chief financial officer and Vincent L. Fabiano assistant vice president and corporate secretary

Leech was president and CEO of Houston Biotechnology Inc...and adjunct professor at Ohio State and Rutgers universities

and is slated to be appointed president to succeed James P. Doherty, who will become vice chairman...Arfors was president and chief executive of the La Jolla Institute for Experimental Medicine and director of explorative research for Pharmacia Experimental Medicine of La Jolla, Calif

Calafiore is assistant professor of medicine and director of the laboratory for the study and transplantation of pancreatic islets at the University of Perugia, Italy...Giotta was director of patents and trademarks for therapeutics at Cetus Corp...Idec (NASDAQ:IDPH) of La Jolla and Mountain View, Calif., develops immunologically active monoclonal antibodies. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

and Dr. George D. Yancopoulos, Ph.D., will be vice president of discovery...and John B. Stoudemire, Ph.D., director of safety evaluation...Goldstein was vice president and legal counsel at Xoma Corp

and senior vice president of corporate development of Genzyme Corp., both of Cambridge, Mass...Phelps was president and chief executive officer of Viagene Inc...and former president of Abbott Laboratories Pharmaceutical Products Division

Works was senior vice president and CFO at Cetus Corp...has appointed Laura A. Brege vice president of finance and chief financial officer...Brege was vice president of finance and CFO of Computer Aided Service Inc