Milos joins Helicos BioSciences

Helicos BioSciences Corp. said today that it has appointed Patrice Milos as vice president and chief scientific officer.

Milos joins Helicos of Cambridge from Pfizer Inc., where she most recently held the position of executive director within Pfizer Global Research and Development, Helicos said.

Helicos is a life sciences company developing innovative genetic analysis technologies for the research, drug discovery, and clinical diagnostics markets.

The company said it has developed its proprietary "True Single Molecule Sequencing" technology to enable ultra-high-throughput genetic analysis based on the direct sequencing of single molecules of nucleic acids.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)