PPD Appoints Central Lab Head

Hacene Mekerri has been appointed vice president of PPD’s central laboratory organization.
 
Mr. Mekerri has more than 15 years of management experience in the drug development industry, including with lab companies, CROs and pharmaceutical companies. Most recently, he served as managing director for the Asia Pacific region of a large CRO, as well as global director of data management and country head for a global central lab focused on late stage clinical trials.
 
“Hacene has a unique combination of data management and systems expertise, as well as extensive global central laboratory management experience, which make him ideally suited to lead our central laboratory organization,” said David Johnston, Ph.D., executive vice president of global laboratory services for PPD. “Hacene’s leadership will advance PPD’s integration of laboratory and clinical data to meet our customers’ research needs.”