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Cyrus Harmon

Sep 24, 2001
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Cyrus Harmon, vice president of computational genomics at Affymetrix, is taking a three-year leave to complete a PhD in genetics at the University of California, Berkeley. Harmon dropped out of grad school five years ago to launch Neomorphic, the bioinformatics company that Affymetrix acquired last year.

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