CombiMatrix has named Camran Nezhat to its scientific advisory board. Nezhat is co-author of two textbooks, Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy, (McGraw-Hill, 2000) and Endometriosis: Advanced Techniques and Surgical Management (Springer Verlag, 1995). In the late 1970s, Nezhat introduced a technique known as video laparoscopy, and was an early innovator of several minimally invasive surgical techniques.