Eileen Meier has joined DPT Laboratories as a business development director. She has more than 20 years of experience in science and business development. Most recently, Ms. Meier was as an account executive at Covance Laboratories, overseeing sales for the company's early drug development services.

"Eileen has an outstanding track record for consistent sales growth and building successful client relationships," said Paul Josephs, DPT's vice president of sales and commercial operations."DPT's strong sales team has helped develop our company's dominance in the contract development and manufacturing industry, and we welcome Eileen's knowledge, expertise and track record as part our team. Together I am confident that we will continue to build a stronger and better DPT in 2009 and beyond."

She spent six years in nutritional and biochemical research at Rutgers University and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories before moving into sales with Fisher Scientific, Burdick & Jackson, and AAI Development Services with increasing levels of responsibility.