Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On March 4, 2013, Mark Erlander, Ph.D. was appointed as chief scientific officer of Trovagene, Inc. (the "Company"). Dr. Erlander has more than 18 years of experience directing research teams with a strong focus in oncology-based molecular diagnostics.

Dr. Erlander previously served as chief scientific officer of bioTheranostics (a bioMerieux company), a molecular oncology diagnostics laboratory based in San Diego. Prior to bioTheranostics, Dr. Erlander was a research fellow at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Johnson & Johnson). Earlier in his career, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla.

Dr. Erlander holds a BS degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis; a MS degree in Biochemistry from Iowa State University; and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds 38 issued U.S. patents in the areas of diagnostics, therapeutics and genomic technologies, and is an author of 73 scientific publications with 56 peer-reviewed original articles and 17 review/chapter publications.

On March 4, 2013, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mark Erlander, Ph.D. as chief scientific officer. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.