NEW HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2006--HistoRx, Inc. announced today that John L. Tonkinson, Ph.D. has been appointed to Vice President, Business Development. HistoRx is developing and commercializing a new generation of companion diagnostics, which will initially be focused on breast cancer. Dr. Tonkinson will oversee HistoRx’s growing number of alliances with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Additionally, he will drive new business development activities to support commercialization of HistoRx’s proprietary companion diagnostics and expand application of the company’s AQUA(TM) platform, a quantitative pathology technology applicable throughout all stages of discovery and development.
