Strand Genomics Pvt. Ltd., of Bangalore, India, appointed Kris Venkat to its board.

Syrrx Inc., of San Diego, appointed David Webb vice president of drug discovery, named Michael Tennant director of computational biology and added Marc Navre, Gideon Bollag and Xiao-Yi Xiao to its drug discovery team.

ViaCell Inc., of Boston, appointed Henry Hoppe vice president, therapeutic development.