PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 25, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Znomics, Inc. (OTCBB:ZNOM), a pioneer in the development of the zebrafish as a vertebrate genetic platform to accelerate drug discovery, announced today that it has named Ofir Moreno, Ph.D., as the company’s new senior director of chemistry, a newly created position.