Jack Davis has accepted an invitation to join the HistoRx board of directors. As the former president and CEO of both a diagnostic product company and a laboratory testing company, he is an acknowledged diagnostic industry expert.

Davis was co-founder, president, CEO, and eventually chairman of the board at Dianon Systems, a leading provider of specialized clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology testing services and disease management systems focusing on cancer, prenatal genetics and cytogenetics. Dianon Systems was sold to LabCorp in 2002. In addition, he served as president and CEO of Calypte Biomedical, a biodiagnostics company that developed the first urine-based HIV test, where he shepherded the company through its IPO. Previously, he was division VP and worldwide general manager of Abbott Laboratories Diagnostics Products business unit.

Source: HistoRx