H&Q NAMES RESEARCH DIRECTOR ...San Francisco investment banking firm Hambrecht & Quist Inc.said it has named D. Larry Smith as managing director of lifescience research. Smith had been a managing director of C.J.Lawrence, Morgan Grenfell Inc. ... Mast Immunosystems ofMountain View, Calif., named Garth Mower as marketing andsales manager for the company's allergy diagnostics in Japan,and appointed Dr. David Mackintosh managing director of itsMicon U.K. Ltd. subsidiary in England. ... The Salk InstituteBiotechnology/Industrial Associates Inc. of La Jolla, Calif., saidWilliam T. Comer, Ph.D., has been appointed president and chiefexecutive officer. He had been senior vice president of strategicmanagement at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Corwin L. Rickard, Ph.D.,the former president, has retired.

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