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Bio-Rad Laboratories: Dara Grantham Wright

Jan 09, 2020

Bio-Rad Laboratories has appointed Dara Grantham Wright as executive vice president of its clinical diagnostics group. She will replace John Hertia, who retired Dec. 31, 2019. Grantham Wright most recently served as VP and general manager of the protein and cell analysis biosciences division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. She has also held senior positions at Affymetrix, Boreal Genomics, and Becton Dickinson.

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