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Agendia: Farida Peters-Abbadi

Apr 04, 2022

Agendia has appointed Farida Peters-Abbadi its VP of marketing, effective April 4. She was most recently president and chief commercial officer of early-stage liquid biopsy diagnostic company Mirvie. Before that, she was VP of sales and marketing at early-stage medical device company Renovia. Peters-Abbadi was also at PerkinElmer as director of marketing.

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