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Guardant Health: Ines Dahne-Steuber, Darya Chudova

Guardant Health has appointed Ines Dahne-Steuber as its chief operating officer and promoted Darya Chudova to the role of chief technology officer.

Prior to joining Guardant Health, Dahne-Steuber served as senior VP of operational excellence and president of Spectra Laboratories at Fresenius Medical Care North America. Before that, she served in various leadership roles at Quest Diagnostics, most recently as general manager for oncology and VP of healthcare IT solutions. She earned both a BA and Masters degree from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Chudova has been with Guardant Health for eight years, most recently serving as the senior VP of technology. Prior to her work at Guardant, Chudova developed tools for clinical diagnostics and interpretation of genomic expression and sequencing data in the context of molecular cytology at Veracyte, and worked in non-invasive prenatal testing at Illumina. She holds a PhD from UC Irvine.

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