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Quadrant Biosciences announced Brady Millican has joined the firm as executive VP of sales. He has more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, and operations in the medical diagnostics and prognostics space and was most recently chief business officer of Admera Health. Before that, he had senior level sales and marketing positions at Bostwick, Ameripath, and Dianon Laboratories. Based in Syracuse, New York, Quadrant has developed Clarifi ASD, a molecular saliva-based test for autism spectrum disorder, as well as Clarifi COVID-19, a saliva-based test codeveloped with the SUNY Upstate Medical University, which received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration in September.

Group K Diagnostics has appointed Jay Rosan to its board of directors. He was VP of health innovation for Walgreens. The company also said that it formed a scientific advisory board in late 2020 comprising Francis Waller, Mark Wingertzahn, Peter Fisher, and Patrick Connolly.

Pregnancy test firm Sera Prognostics has appointed Robert Harrison as chief information officer. For more than three decades, Harrison has served in senior leadership positions of both public and private companies. Most recently, he served as officer of Myriad Genetics' chief information office. With Myriad Genetics, he directed the information technology integration of four strategic acquisitions and helped facilitate its international business expansion over the past decade. Harrison is a member of the Association for Information Management Utah CIO Council and is a long-standing board member of the Utah Technology Council.

Roche subsidiary Flatiron Health announced that Carolyn Starrett, the current leader of the company's oncology business, will take over as CEO effective April 16. She will replace CEO and Cofounder Nat Turner, who is stepping down from Flatiron management. 

Starrett joined the company in 2016 and was previously VP of customer experience and operations at Flatiron. She served as VP of partnerships and business operations and VP of strategic partnerships at Intent Media before joining Flatiron. 

She has also served as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and as a senior product manager at Jupiter Networks. 

Foundation Medicine announced that Brian Alexander, the company's chief medical officer, would take over as CEO for Cindy Perettie. Perettie has taken on a new role at Roche Diagnostics, the company said.

Alexander joined FMI as senior VP of clinical development in 2018 and was promoted to CMO in 2019. As CMO, Alexander has expanded the company's molecular tumor board program and launched a genomics and health disparities effort, the company said.

Alexander has served as a radiation oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Cancer Center and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He is an affiliated researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Financial Engineering and affiliated faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School Healthcare Policy Program. 

He was the founding director of the Program in Regulatory Science at Dana-Farber and the Harvard/MIT Center for Regulatory Science. He also cofounded the nonprofit Global Coalition for Adaptive Research and served as a White House fellow and special assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.  

Laboratory Corporation of American has appointed Kathryn Wengel as an independent member of the company's board, effective immediately. Labcorp's board increased to 10 members from nine, as a result. Wengel is currently EVP and chief supply chain officer at Johnson & Johnson. She also is chairman of the board of GS1 Global, which sets and maintains standards for the exchange of business data for global commerce and is on the executive committee of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Cue Health announced three additions to its executive leadership team: John Gallagher as CFO, Erica Palsis as general counsel, and Dena Cook as chief communications officer.

Gallagher previously served as CFO of Becton Dickinson's medical segment and treasurer. He has also been in multiple finance leadership roles at GE, Ford Motor Company, and Visteon. 

Palsis was general counsel, corporate secretary, and privacy officer at digital health firm Livongo until it was acquired. She has also served as corporate counsel at Allscripts. 

Cook previously served as executive VP and head of global communication at Mattel, as well as partner and chief communications officer at Reinvent Capital. She was also CEO at international communications firm Brew and senior VP at Zeno Group.