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People in the News: Adam Lowe: Jul 26, 2013

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Personalis has hired Adam Lowe as its vice president of marketing. In this role, Lowe will recruit and lead Personalis' marketing organization and serve as a key member of its management team.

Prior to joining Personalis, Lowe served as vice president of commercial operations at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Before that, he spent five years at Illumina, where he built and led the company's next generation sequencing product marketing and management team. He's also worked as director of scientific operations at Applied Biosystems — now Life Technologies — and served in Agilent's business development unit.

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