Illumina OKs $100M Share Buyback

San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN]]) said today that its board has authorized a program to buy back $100 million of stock. The new program is on top of a $75 million share repurchase program the company announced in August.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.