Susan Siegel has resigned from Pacific Biosciences' board of directors and David Singer said that he will not stand for re-election to the board at the company's 2013 annual meeting of stockholders.
Siegel has been on the company's board since 2006. She is CEO of Healthymagination, a General Electric company. She has previously served on the board of directors for a number of companies, including Navigenics, RainDance Technologies, and Affymetrix.
Singer has also been on PacBio's board since 2006. Previously, he was founding president and CEO of Affymetrix. Currently, he is a limited partner at private investment firm Maverick Capital.
Real Time Genomics has formed a scientific advisory board that includes George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University; Timothy Triche, director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the associate director of the Pediatric Institute of Molecular Medicine at Phoenix Children's Hospital; and Gene Myers, director of the Center for Systems Biology at the Max Planck Institute.