Syneos Health Inc. announced the acquisition of Kinapse – a market leading advisory and operational solutions provider to the global life sciences industry – from Hg, a specialist investor based in the U.K.

Syneos Health, the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, announced the appointment of Lisa van Capelle as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).

Reaction Biology Corporation, a leading contract research organization providing early-stage drug discovery services, announced that it has launched a new division to provide ion-channel discovery services.