• GE (Fairfield, Connecticut) has named three new company officers. Jörg Debatin has been named VP and chief technology officer for GE Healthcare. Debatin joined GE from Amedes AG, where he served as CEO. Jaime Irick has been named VP of GE Lighting North America Professional Solutions. Irick joined GE in 2003, where he held a succession of leadership roles, most recently serving as GM, GE Lighting North America Professional Solutions. Kelly Lafnitzegger has been named VP of HR for GE Power & Water.

• Insulet (Billerica, Massachusetts), a maker of tubeless insulin pump technology with its OmniPod Insulin Management System, said that Patrick Sullivan has been named president/CEO, and director. Sullivan succeeds Duane DeSisto, who is retiring after 13 years at the company. DeSisto will be available to the company as a consultant through the end of 2014 to assist with an effective leadership transition. Sullivan brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience to Insulet. As chairman, president/CEO of Cytyc from 1994 to 2007, Following the acquisition of Cytyc by Hologic in 2007, Sullivan served as executive chairman of Hologic.

• Trovagene (San Diego), a maker of cell-free molecular diagnostics, said that Alberto Bardelli has joined the company's scientific advisory board. Currently, he is at the Department of Oncology, Torino Medical School, Institute for Cancer Research in Candiolo, Italy. Bardelli is a pioneering scientist in the field of cancer genomics and the modelling of cancer using isogenic cell-lines. He developed a generation of isogenic cell-lines harboring subtle kinase mutations designed to accurately predict responses to appropriately targeted agents in humans. In 2014, Bardelli was nominated by Thomson Reuters in the list of the world's most influential scientific minds. He currently serves as associate professor at the Department of Oncology at the University of Torino as well as Director, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at The Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, IRCC, Italy.