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Element Biosciences: Shelly Peariso

Element Biosciences announced the addition of Shelly Peariso as VP of sales.

Peariso comes to the firm from Thermo Fisher Scientific, where she led the Americas commercial organization in the clinical next-generation sequencing division. She brings more then 20 years of experience, having started selling capillary electrophoresis sequencers at Applied Biosystems in 2005. She holds a master's degree in biomedical chemistry from Thomas Jefferson University.

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