Jay Moyes has become chief financial officer of XDx, the molecular diagnostics company said this week. Most recently, he was vice president of finance and CFO at Myriad Genetics. Prior to that, he served as CFO of Genmark, an agricultural biotechnology company. Moyes holds an MBA from the University of Utah and a BA in economics from Weber State University.
Lynda Merrill has joined Qiagen as vice president of molecular diagnostics sales for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Australia, the company said last week. Merrill, who is based in the UK, formerly was a vice president at Gen-Probe and served in management roles at Boehringer Mannheim.