Craig Venter
Craig Venter announced that he is retiring from Human Longevity, the company he cofounded and where he serves as chairman and CEO. Venter said in a tweet that he will be returning to the J. Craig Venter Institute, which he founded in 2006, "to continue my work."
Ted Goldstein
Precision medicine informatics company GNS Healthcare has named bioinformatician and biomedical engineer Ted Goldstein to its strategic advisory board. Goldstein, who serves as the scientific program director of computational health at the University of California, San Francisco, is leading the development of a machine learning-based comprehensive cancer diagnosis and treatment model for the university. He previously served as vice president of developer tools at Apple and as an e-commerce hardware developer for Sun Microsystems.
Jeffrey Busch, John Brugmann, Mick Ruxin
Avant Diagnostics has appointed Jeffrey Busch as chairman of its board of directors and John Brugmann as a director on the board. In addition, Mick Ruxin has joined the firm as CEO, resident, and board member.
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