Pacific Biosciences: Jason Kang

Pacific Biosciences has appointed Jason Kang as VP and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region.

Kang brings more than 25 years of experience in the genomics industry. He led Illumina's commercial operations in South Korea for six years and launched his own company, Helixrus, which distributed large-scale population genomics and clinical sequencing software for single-cell RNA and rare disease sequencing. He has also held positions at Life Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Macrogen, and Spectral Genomics.

Kang holds a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from Thomas Jefferson University.