RainDance Technologies Inc. hired Laura Deming to be the company’s senior vice president of product development and Joseph Malandrakis as senior product development counsel.

The Lexington, Mass.-based company, which makes microdroplet-based technologies for the life science and research markets, said Deming will oversee the long-range product planning and strategy.

"RainDance is experiencing breakthrough growth and this is a very exciting time to join the Company. I look forward to working closely with this exceptionally talented team as we bring quality novel high-throughput platforms, and innovative digital PCR and single cell analysis solutions to customers around the world," Deming said in prepared remarks.

The company in January raised $37.5 million in a Series D round. Investors Sherrill Neff from Quaker BioVentures and Jeffrey Samberg from Acadia Woods LLC joined the RainDance board in connection with the financing.

Here’s the latest personnel changes from medical device, diagnostics and life science companies around the nation. For more recent hirings and firings, check out MassDevice’s compilation of the latest personnel moves.

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• Echo Therapeutics adds two executives
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• Cantel Medical names Ann Berman to board
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