Board elects new CEO to molecular diagnostics company SIRS-Lab GmbH

10-Aug-2009 - Germany

SIRS-Lab GmbH has elected Barbara Staehelin as new Chief Executive Officer. Swiss national Barbara Staehelin is a biochemist and holds an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau). She is a life science entrepreneur and has also made a career in the diagnostics industry. Until 2006, she was a member of the Global Executive Committee of Roche Diagnostics.

Barbara Staehelin: “The SIRS-Lab team is an impressive group, and I believe the SIRS-Lab technology has the potential to unlock this challenging diagnostic field by industry partnerships and with its own product pipeline.”

Nicolas Fulpius and Katrin Uschmann, Board members, comment: “We are very pleased to have recruited Mrs. Staehelin. She has unmatched experience and competences to lead an innovative company like SIRS-Lab to the next level of its development.”

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