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Genomenon: John Battles

Feb 21, 2023

Genomenon has named John Battles VP of engineering, charged with leading the bioinformatics firm's "technical vision and implementation," according to a statement. Battles most recently had a short stint with L7 Informatics, where he led technical development of that company's flagship Enterprise Science Platform (ESP) product. Prior to that, he was director of software development at clinical trial lab services organization Q2 Solutions, as well as VP of bioinformatics at Genomind.

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