• Purdue University and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) officials said that John Hertig, the former president/CEO of Enpath Medical (Minneapolis), will be the institute’s inaugural executive director. The institute was established last spring through a $100 million endowment from the Alfred Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering (California).

• Pegasus Biologics (Irvine, California) said that its president and founder, France Dixon Helfer, has resigned to accept a president/CEO position with a plastic surgery device start up. Pegasus Biologics makes collagen scaffolds for soft tissue repair.