OPKO Health, Inc. Announces Leadership Changes for Bioreference Laboratories
August 16, 2022 at 04:29 pm EDT
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OPKO Health, Inc. announced that Jon R. Cohen, M.D., is retiring from his role as Executive Chairman of BioReference Laboratories and Senior Vice President and a Director of OPKO. He will remain as an employed advisor to the company through the end of December 2022 and continue as a consultant for the following nine months to assist in positioning the company for accelerated growth. Effective immediately, Craig Allen, President and Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer, reporting to Elias Zerhouni, M.D., President of OPKO Health.
Craig Allen is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer at BioReference, leading all key operational aspects of BioReference. Craig has had more than 25 years of laboratory industry experience and held various leadership roles at Quest Diagnostics and General Electric, prior to joining BioReference in 2018.
OPKO Health, Inc. is a multinational biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company. The Company's diagnostics segment consists of the clinical laboratory operations of BioReference Health, LLC (BioReference), its point-of-care operations. Its pharmaceutical segment consists of the pharmaceutical operations in Chile, Mexico, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Ecuador, France, the United States, and its pharmaceutical research and development operations. Through BioReference, it operates specialized laboratory divisions, such as GenPath (Urology), GenPath (Oncology), and GenPath (Women's Health). It has two commercial stage pharmaceutical products and several pharmaceutical compounds and technologies in various stages of research and development for a range of indications and conditions, including Rayaldee, Rayaldee, Oxyntomodulin, Biologics, NGENLA Somatrogon, and Factor VIIa-CTP. It develops and manufactures specialty active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) through FineTech Pharmaceutical, Ltd.
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