Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone?

And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that GlycoMimetics promoted Helen Thackray to chief medical officer and vp of clinical development. She joined the drugmaker in 2006 and was previously vp of clinical product development at Biosynexus. Besides her work at GlycoMimetics, Thackray is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

COPD Foundation hired David Barringer as executive director;
GPhA hired David Gaugh as vp for regulatory sciences;
Akinion Pharmaceuticals hired Carl Harald Janson as ceo;
Optimer says coo Tessie Che is leaving;
GfK HealthCare hired Ben Walton to head UK operations;
GlycoMimetics promoted Brian Hahn to cfo;
Covidien hired Mark Trudeau to heads its pharma business;
Cerecor named Sol Barer as board chairman;
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals promoted Jakob Dupont to chief medical officer;
AAIPharma Services hired Eric Evans chief financial officer;
AstraZeneca hired Briggs Morrison as exec vp, global medicines development;
Glide Pharma hired Ian Smith as ceo;
Harlan Labs hired Doug Vaughan as cfo;
Harlan Labs hired David Broecker to head Research Models & Services;
Octapharma hired David Holliday as vp of commercial development;
Premier Research named Susan Stansfield as exec vp, clinical development;
Baxter hired Jean-Luc Butel as corp vp and president of international operations;
Duane Morris named Woody Jameson to head its intellectual property practice;
GEA Pharma named Zósimo López Moreno as sales and biz dev director in Latin America.

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