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Day Zero Diagnostics: Gail Marcus

Nov 09, 2022

Gail Marcus has joined the board of infectious disease diagnostics firm Day Zero Diagnostics. She is an assistant professor of population health at Hofstra University and has held leadership positions at Fortune 100 firms including at CIGNA, AdvancePCS/Caremark CVS, UnitedHealth Group, and Caris Diagnostics where she was president and CEO. Boston-based Day Zero recently said it received an additional $8.2 million in non-dilutive funding from CARB-X to develop its sequencing-based diagnostic system.

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