1980
Bruce Forman has been appointed the business development manager for North America for the medical device and packaging manufacturer Medicon.
1984
Gretchen Specht Herbert, an officer in the Navy, is the director of Navy networks in the office of the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Communication Networks. Gretchen has been selected for promotion to rear admiral.
1985
Dennis Miller has been appointed senior vice president of research and preclinical development at ZymoGenetics, a Seattle pharmaceutical company.
1986
Meirav Chovav ’89 (MS) is a biotechnology analyst and consultant and the new vice president of strategic affairs at Nucleix, a company in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializing in forensic DNA analysis.
1987
Kirk Reinbold has accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame as the inaugural managing director of the University’s Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics Initiative. He writes: “AD & T designs microsensing devices for personalized health care and environmental monitoring. Working on the nanoscale, 31 researchers from five departments within the College of Engineering and two departments within the College of Arts and Sciences are developing miniaturized systems that can capture and detect a few distinct molecules in order to provide physicians and scientists with more accurate information for medical diagnoses or environmental assessments. My role is to grow the initiative through collaborative efforts with other academies, foundations, research institutes and industry. Go Irish!” . . . Lizette Perez Deisboeck has been appointed general counsel at Battery Ventures, a technology investment firm based in Waltham, Mass. . . . Brad Hughart (see ’91).
1989
Amy Williams Hughart (see ’91).