EvoNexus Graduate, Cypher Genomics, Allies With Illumina

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.

Read the full article in the UT.