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Jun 02, 2010
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Stan Lapidus is the founder, president, and CEO of SynapDx, a new company developing diagnostic tests for the early detection of autism. He is a co-founder of Helicos BioSciences, Cytyc, and Exact Sciences.

Predictive Biosciences has appointed James Groves as vice president of lab operations and Mark Smith as vice president of information technology.

Groves, who was head of operations at SED Medical Laboratories and VP of clinical operations at the Beijing International Heart Institute, will work on strategic sales and growth of the company's OncoDiagnostics Laboratory.

Smith recently was VP of information technology at Athena Diagnostics, where he was responsible for the firm's IT strategy and development of its customer interface systems.

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