Myriad Genetics: Walter Gilbert, Daniel Skovronsky

Myriad Genetics has expanded its board of directors to 10 members with the election of Daniel Skovronsky, CSO and president of Lilly Research Laboratories at Eli Lilly. Skovronsky will serve on the research and product innovation committee within Myriad’s board. Additionally, Myriad announced that Walter Gilbert, the director and vice chair of the board, will retire from these positions at the firm's annual stockholder meeting in December. Gilbert cofounded Myriad and received a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1980 for his development of rapid DNA sequencing technology.