Biotech SF: Pathworks Diagnostics names Lee McCracken as CEO

Monday, November 5, 2012

Lee McCracken has been named chief executive officer of Pathworks Diagnostics Inc.

The Redwood City-based cancer diagnostics company said in a release that McCracken was most recently corporate head of business development at Prometheus Laboratories.

Some of my favorite stories.

• "The fight of his life" (2007)

Last year Mike Homer helped raise the money for 2,000 medical research computers. Now researchers are using that equipment in an attempt to save his life.

• "For reporter, CJD is more than a story" (2007)

Seven years ago -- nearly to the day -- my mother died of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.

• "A son's YouTube plea for Avastin" (2010)

Josh Turnage is your typical teenager, trying to discover what he wants to do in college and with his life. But a 7-minute, 41-second YouTube video he produced about his mother's fight with breast cancer may thrust him into a debate between drug makers and the agency that regulates them.

• "New device could knock out old dialysis technology" (2011)

Shuvo Roy has all the makings for the world's first implantable artificial kidney, thanks to nanotechnology and a web of nationwide collaborations.

All he needs now is $20 million.

Biotech SF

Monday, November 5, 2012

Pathworks Diagnostics names Lee McCracken as CEO

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