New CEO for Magellan Biosciences

Diagnostics company Magellan Biosciences announced today it has appointed a new president and CEO, Hiroshi Uchida. Most recently serving as executive VP, CTO, and a member of the board of directors of blood transfusion technology company Fenwal, Uchida said he plans to improve partnerships and accelerate investments in development projects for Chelmsford, MA-based Magellan, which has products in lead poisoning, food safety, and autoimmune testing.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.