ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioReliance Corporation announced today that James J. Kramer, Ph.D, has been named Vice President of Operations, U.S. Biologics. BioReliance Corporation is a leading contract services company that provides biologics safety testing, toxicology, viral manufacturing and laboratory animal diagnostic services to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries worldwide. Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, acquired BioReliance from Invitrogen (NASDAQ:IVGN) in April 2007.