Danaher Corporation announced that Jose-Carlos ("JC") Gutierrez-Ramos has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for Danaher. In this role, Dr. Gutierrez-Ramos will have responsibility for helping define Danaher's science and technology strategy across the organization, including facilitating innovation and further development of scientific and technology talent. With this appointment, Dr. Gutierrez-Ramos will become an executive officer of the Company and report directly to Rainer M. Blair, President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Gutierrez-Ramos joins Danaher from Abbvie where he served as the Head of Global Drug Discovery and was a member of the executive R&D team. Prior to Abbvie, Dr. Gutierrez-Ramos was President and CEO of Repertoire Immune Medicines and Synlogic, and he previously served in a series of progressively more responsible R&D roles at Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Avidia (Amgen Inc.) and Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Prior to working in the private sector, Dr. Gutierrez-Ramos was a tenure track professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Genetics and an Investigator at The Center for Blood Research. He was also a professor for the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) at the National Center of Biotechnology in Madrid, Spain.