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Inflammatix: Purvesh Khatri

Jun 15, 2022

Inflammatix has appointed Purvesh Khatri its chief scientific officer. A cofounder of Inflammatix, Khatri was previously a scientific advisor to the Redwood City, California-based molecular diagnostics company. He is an associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and developed Onto-Express, the first ontology tool for the analysis of microarray data, Inflammatix said.

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