Quantum-Si: Vikram Bajaj

Jun 17, 2022

Quantum-Si has appointed Vikram Bajaj to its board of directors. Bajaj is a managing director at Foresite Capital. Prior to that he was chief scientific officer at Grail, where he remains on the scientific advisory board. He is also the cofounder and former chief science officer of Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) and served as chair of its scientific advisory board.

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