Canaan Promotes Hutton

Canaan Partners has promoted Wende Hutton from venture partner to general partner. Hutton joined Canaan in March 2004, and currently sits  on the boards of such life sciences companies as Alsius Corp., Apieron Inc., BiPar Sciences Inc., Northstar Neuroscience Inc. (Nasdaq: NSTR), Oculir Inc., ReVision Optics Inc., and Spaltudaq Corp. www.canaan.com