Avid Bioservices, Inc. announced the appointment of Catherine Mackey, Ph.D. as an independent member of the company's board of directors. Dr. Mackey is an experienced leader, director and advisor with more than 30 years of R&D and operations experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agricultural industries, including over a decade in key leadership roles at Pfizer Inc. Dr. Mackey currently serves as chairman of the board of Cour Pharmaceutical Development Corporation. In addition, she serves on the board of directors of GW Pharmaceuticals, Poseida, Rady Children's Hospital and Rady Children's Institute of Genomic Medicine. Her previous board appointments have included Evolve Biosystems, Sequenom, Viventia Bio, YM Biosciences and Althea Technologies.