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Genialis: Mojca Valjavec, Robyn Schlicher

Jun 10, 2021

Genialis has added four people to its team, including two senior executives. Mojca Valjavec has joined as head of compliance and regulatory operations, and has already helped the firm earn ISO 27000 recertification. Robyn Schlicher, who has a background in precision diagnostics, has been named director of business development strategy. Genialis has also hired Daniel Pointing and Sukhi Singh as domain experts, in the areas of partnership development and in findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible (FAIR) data standards, respectively. 

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