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People in the News: Clive Morris, John Healy, Aleksandra Filipovic, and Peter Wild

Clive Morris

Inivata has appointed Clive Morris as chief medical officer. Morris joins Inivata from Health Innovation Manchester, and previously worked for over a decade in various key roles at AstraZeneca. He also currently serves as a non-executive director for both the Wheatsheaf investment group and the recently launched InnovateUK Medicines Discovery Catapult.


John Healy

Exosome Diagnostics has appointed John Healy as vice president of informatics. Healy most recently served as vice president of informatics at GnuBio, which was acquired by Bio-Rad Laboratories in 2014. He has also held various roles as senior scientist and project leader at Life Technologies, Helicos BioSciences, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.


Aleksandra Filipovic and Peter Wild

Sophia Genetics has appointed Aleksandra Filipovic and Peter Wild to its scientific board. Filipovic currently teaches in the department of surgery and cancer at the Imperial College of London. Wild currently works as a senior consultant and assistant professor of systems Pathology at the University of Zurich and the University Hospital of Zurich.


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