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People in the News: Ardy Arianpour, Jonathan Rothberg

Jun 26, 2013
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Ardy Arianpour, former VP of business development at Ambry Genetics, has now been promoted to senior VP of business development at the firm. Before joining Ambry in 2009, he held several positions at Cogenics.

Jonathan Rothberg has resigned from his position as CEO of Life Technologies' Ion Torrent business, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Ronnie Andrews, Life Tech's president of genetic and medical sciences, will oversee the Ion Torrent business in addition to continuing in his current role.

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