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People in the News: Adam Lowe : Jul 24, 2013

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Personalis has appointed Adam Lowe as its VP of marketing. Lowe previously served as VP of commercial operations at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. He spent five years at Illumina, where he led the company's product marketing and management team for next-generation sequencing. He also served as director of scientific operations at Applied Biosystems, before it was bought by Life Technologies.

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