People Briefs
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Cohera Medical CEO named AdvaMed Accel chair; Trovagene sacks CEO and CFO over precision medicine dispute; OraSure Technologies appoints Eamonn Hobbs to board; DNA Diagnostics Center names its president and CEO; Lantheus Holdings taps CFO; Omcron gets new president and CEO.
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