Management tracks

23andMe Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) hired Robert Gentleman as VP of computational biology. Gentleman was senior director of bioinformatics and computational biology at the Genentech Inc. unit of Roche (SIX:ROG; OTCQX:RHHBY). At his new post he will collaborate with CSO and Head of Therapeutics Richard Scheller to help 23andMe's newly formed therapeutics group use data analytics and theoretical models to advance drug research and discovery.

Diagnostics company Vermillion Inc. (NASDAQ:VRML) hired Fred Ferrara as chief information officer, a newly created position. Ferrara was CIO and SVP of the Anatomic Pathology Services Company of Aurora Diagnostics LLC (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.). ...