Response Genetics Announces Search for New CEO

Kathleen Danenberg to Continue as Founder and Executive Scientific and Technology Officer

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Response Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGDX) (the “Company” or “RGI”) announced today that it intends to hire a new Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) before year end 2011. On July 22, 2011, Kathleen Danenberg stepped down from the position of CEO and was appointed by the Board of Directors to serve as Founder and Executive Scientific and Technology Officer of the Company to focus her attention on RGI’s scientific research and development activities. Denise McNairn, the Company’s Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, will serve as the Company’s CEO on an interim basis while the Company searches for a permanent successor to Ms. Danenberg.

To facilitate the search for a new CEO, the Board has engaged CTPartners, a leading executive search firm, to assist in identifying qualified candidates.

Kirk K. Calhoun, Chairman of the Board, said: “We are very grateful for Kathleen Danenberg’s leadership and acknowledge her numerous contributions to RGI starting from the beginning of the Company in 1999. Her patented research breakthroughs have been instrumental in making RGI what it is today. She has established a solid scientific foundation upon which the Company can continue to move forward in its development of additional diagnostic tests for cancer. We look forward to her continued active involvement with the Company as Founder and Executive Scientific and Technology Officer.”

Kathleen Danenberg said, “This transition will allow me to spend most of my time on developing new diagnostic technologies while refining our present products. It is an exciting transition for the Company in which we will recruit a successor who has the experience to broaden our market share and scale our products. Together we will work towards achieving widespread adoption of our predictive tests for chemotherapy outcome.”

About Response Genetics, Inc.

Response Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGDX) is focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer. RGI’s technologies enable extraction and analysis of genetic information from genes derived from tumor samples stored as formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded specimens. In addition to diagnostic testing services, RGI generates revenue from the sales of its proprietary analytical pharmacogenomic testing services of clinical trial specimens to the pharmaceutical industry. The Company was founded in 1999 and its principal headquarters are located in Los Angeles, California. For more information, please visit www.responsegenetics.com.

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