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David Barker

Dec 18, 2014

Biomatrica said today that David Barker has joined the company's scientific advisory board. Barker currently serves on the board of directors of BioNano Genomics and AmideBio. He is a scientfic advisor to Illumina, where he served as vice president and CSO from 2000 to 2007. Barker has also served in excutive roles at Molecular Dynamics and Amersham Biosciences, now part of General Electric.

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