A San Diego biotech startup has signed a sales partnership with DNA sequencing giant Illumina and brought on board some prominent industry veterans.
Herbert Boyer, a cofounder of Genentech; Henry Nordhoff, former chief executive of Gen-Probe; and Andrew von Eschenbach, a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, have joined Cypher Genomics, which has 10 employees. Nordhoff becomes executive chairman, and the other two become board directors.
