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Dr. Mark H. Skolnick, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer and Director

Myriad Genetics, Inc. (MYGN)

Industry: Healthcare

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Mark H. Skolnick, Ph.D., a scientific founder of Myriad, has been a Director since our inception in 1991 and has served as Chief Scientific Officer since 1997. Dr. Skolnick and several colleagues were the first to conceive of using restriction fragment length polymorphism technology as genetic markers, a breakthrough that underpinned the Human Genome Project. He received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University in 1975, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968.


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