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2004 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- SIGA Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: SIGA) announced the appointment of Bernard L. Kasten, MD, as its chief executive officer.
Kasten joins SIGA following eight years at Quest Diagnostics where he was vice president of Medical Affairs of its MedPlus subsidiary. During his career at Quest, he also served as vice president, business development for science and medicine and chief laboratory officer.
Kasten is a graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and is a diplomat of the American Board of Pathology with Certification in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with sub-specialty certification in Medical Microbiology. He completed his residency training at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of many professional and scientific articles and is a principal author of the "Infectious Disease Handbook" 5th Edition Lexi-Comp Inc, Hudson, Ohio, 2002.
Kasten has been a member of SIGA's board of directors since May 2003.
"SIGA's research and development efforts have yielded technology which positions the company to lead in the development of a next generation ...