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People in the News: Robert Green, Shashikant Kulkarni, Rong Chen, Mark Gerstein, and more

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Bina Technologies has added four new members to its advisory board. They are Robert Green, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and associate director for research at the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine; Shashikant Kulkarni, the director of cytogenomics and molecular pathology, and an associate professor of pathology and immunology, pediatrics, and genetics at Washington University School of Medicine; Rong Chen, the director of clinical genome informatics at the Icahn Institute of Genetics and Multiscale Biology; and Mark Gerstein, a Yale University professor of biomedical informatics, molecular biophysics & biochemistry, and computer Science.

Bina has also added two new members to its executive team. Janet Lankard has been hired as vice president of sales, and Gianfranco de Feo is now the company's vice president of marketing.

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