Foresight Diagnostics: Uplaksh Kumar

Apr 28, 2023

Uplaksh Kumar will be joining Foresight Diagnostics' board of directors in conjunction with the firm's recent Series B financing round. Kumar is a venture partner at Foresite Capital, the lead investor in the round. Previously, he was senior VP of strategic operations and scale at Grail. Prior to that, he was head of operations at Verily and held various leadership positions at Life Technologies, BD, Lonza, and Qiagen.

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