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Allan Brown, David Matthews

Sep 11, 2018

QuantuMDx appointed Allan Brown as chief operating officer and David Matthews as chief financial officer. Brown was previously COO and a board director at Genedrive where he oversaw the launch of the company's PCR-based platform, also called Genedrive, for diagnosing hepatitis C. He previously was at Qiagen and Tepnel Life Sciences. Matthews was previously CFO at Contextual Genomics and was part of the founding team at GenomeDx Biosciences. 

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