Lee Babiss, Ph.D. has been named head of global pharma research, Roche, effective July 1, 2007. In this new role, Dr. Babiss will be based in Basel, Switzerland, and focus on leading and managing research within the company’s five disease biology areas: virology, inflammation, oncology, CNS and metabolism, at research sites located in Palo Alto, CA, Nutley, NJ, Basel, Switzerland, Penzberg, Germany, and Shanghai, China. He will report to William M. Burns, chief executive officer, pharmaceu...