Shane Grey has been appointed to the scientific advisory board of Squolamie, Wash.-based CombiMatrix, a subsidiary of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Acacia Research. Grey, an assistant professor in surgery at Harvard Medical School, holds a PhD in immunology and pathology from Monash University in Australia. He did postdoctoral research in human immunology, gene therapy and transplantation at the Sandoz Center for Immunobiology in Boston.