California Biotech
Executive Summary
Senior VP-R&D John Shine to president and chief scientific officer; Senior VP-Operations and Administration Myron Wick, III to chief operating officer. Shine, 39, joined the firm as VP-R&D and director of research in 1984. California Biotech notes that Shine was "responsible for cloning the first human hormone, placental lactogen," and discovered the signal in genes which allows protein synthesis to occur in bacteria.