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Myriad Genetics Named to Forbes 2019 List of America's Best Midsize Employers and the Women Tech Council’s 2019 Shatter List

Creating a Culture of Diversity, Inclusion and Opportunity Is a Top Company Priority

SALT LAKE CITY, April 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), a global leader in personalized medicine, today announced today announced that the company was named to Forbes 2019 list of America's Best Midsize Employers for the third year in a row. And last month, the company was recognized for the second year in a row in the Women Tech Council’s 2019 Shatter List for actively employing measures to help break glass ceiling for women in technology.

“We are excited to again be recognized by both Forbes and the Women’s Tech Council for creating a company culture that empowers our employees to grow and become the best versions of themselves,” said Mark C. Capone, president and CEO, Myriad Genetics. “It is more important than ever that we attract and retain top talent with diverse backgrounds, and creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive work culture is one of our top priorities.”

Myriad employs more than 2,900 people across the United States and Europe. Learn more about career opportunities at Myriad by visiting our website and download Myriad's corporate fact sheet here. Follow Myriad on Twitter via @MyriadGenetics to stay current with company news.

About the Forbes 2019 List 
Employers were chosen based on an independent survey from a sample of more than 50,000 U.S.-employees working for companies employing at least 1,000 people in their U.S. operations. Employees were asked to give their opinions on working conditions, salary, potential for development and company image regarding their current employer.

About Women Tech Council’s 2019 Shatter List
Women Tech Council is a national organization focused on the economic impact of women in the technology sector through developing programs that propel the economic pipeline from high school K-12 to C-suite. Myriad was among 46 companies recognized based on the development and successful implementation of measures that create gender-inclusive cultures where women can contribute and succeed.

About Myriad Genetics
Myriad Genetics Inc., is a leading personalized medicine company dedicated to being a trusted advisor transforming patient lives worldwide with pioneering molecular diagnostics. Myriad discovers and commercializes molecular diagnostic tests that: determine the risk of developing disease, accurately diagnose disease, assess the risk of disease progression, and guide treatment decisions across six major medical specialties where molecular diagnostics can significantly improve patient care and lower healthcare costs. Myriad is focused on five strategic imperatives: build upon a solid hereditary cancer foundation, growing new product volume, expanding reimbursement coverage for new products, increasing RNA kit revenue internationally and improving profitability with Elevate 2020. For more information on how Myriad is making a difference, please visit the Company's website: www.myriad.com.

Myriad, the Myriad logo, BART, BRACAnalysis, Colaris, Colaris AP, myPath, myRisk, Myriad myRisk, myRisk Hereditary Cancer, myChoice, myPlan, BRACAnalysis CDx, Tumor BRACAnalysis CDx, myChoice HRD, EndoPredict, Vectra, GeneSight, riskScore, Prolaris, Foresight and Prequel are trademarks or registered trademarks of Myriad Genetics, Inc. or its wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States and foreign countries. MYGN-F, MYGN-G.

Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to being selected as one of the Forbes' 2019 America's Best Employers List; being recognized for the second year in a row in the Women Tech Council’s 2019 Shatter List; and the Company's strategic directives under the caption "About Myriad Genetics." These "forward-looking statements" are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the risk that sales and profit margins of our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services may decline; risks related to our ability to transition from our existing product portfolio to our new tests, including unexpected costs and delays; risks related to decisions or changes in governmental or private insurers’ reimbursement levels for our tests or our ability to obtain reimbursement for our new tests at comparable levels to our existing tests; risks related to increased competition and the development of new competing tests and services; the risk that we may be unable to develop or achieve commercial success for additional molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services in a timely manner, or at all; the risk that we may not successfully develop new markets for our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services, including our ability to successfully generate revenue outside the United States; the risk that licenses to the technology underlying our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services and any future tests and services are terminated or cannot be maintained on satisfactory terms; risks related to delays or other problems with operating our laboratory testing facilities and our healthcare clinic; risks related to public concern over genetic testing in general or our tests in particular; risks related to regulatory requirements or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries and changes in the structure of the healthcare system or healthcare payment systems; risks related to our ability to obtain new corporate collaborations or licenses and acquire new technologies or businesses on satisfactory terms, if at all; risks related to our ability to successfully integrate and derive benefits from any technologies or businesses that we license or acquire; risks related to our projections about our business, results of operations and financial condition; risks related to the potential market opportunity for our products and services; the risk that we or our licensors may be unable to protect or that third parties will infringe the proprietary technologies underlying our tests; the risk of patent-infringement claims or challenges to the validity of our patents or other intellectual property; risks related to changes in intellectual property laws covering our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services and patents or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries, such as the Supreme Court decision in the lawsuit brought against us by the Association for Molecular Pathology et al; risks of new, changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the United States and internationally; the risk that we may be unable to comply with financial operating covenants under our credit or lending agreements; the risk that we will be unable to pay, when due, amounts due under our credit or lending agreements; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in Item 1A of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and Myriad undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.

Media Contact: Ron Rogers    Investor Contact: Scott Gleason
  (801) 584-3065      (801) 584-1143
  rrogers@myriad.com          sgleason@myriad.com     

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