Spark Therapeutics, announced the appointment of Elliott Sigal, M.D., Ph.D., former director, executive vice president and chief scientific officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb, to its board of directors.
Elliott received his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1981 and trained in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he served on the faculty of UCSF's Department of Medicine from 1988 to 1992. Prior to medical school he received a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.