Advion BioSciences of Ithaca, NY, has formed its scientific advisory board and appointed Thomas Baillie, Barry Karger, and John Yates as members. Baillie is vice president of drug metabolism at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa. Karger directs the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis at Northeastern University in Boston, and Yates is a professor in the department of cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and a senior research fellow at Diversa.