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Movers & Shakers: Nov 19, 2010

Nov 19, 2010
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Jonathan Knowles, vice chairman and chief scientific officer at Caris Life Sciences, has received the 2010 Scrip Lifetime Achievement Award, given annually to recognize achievements in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and allied industries.

Knowles joined Caris's board in September 2009. Before that he was president of group research at Roche. He is also a professor of translational medicine at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

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