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Nebula Genomics: Russ Altman

Oct 17, 2022

The Nebula Genomics subsidiary of ProPhase Labs has appointed Russ Altman to its advisory board. Altman, professor of bioengineering, genetics, medicine, biomedical data science, and computer science at Stanford University, becomes just the second member of Nebula's advisory board, after company founder George Church. Altman is a former chair of Stanford's bioengineering department, a past president, founding board member, and fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology, and a past president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

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