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Fluidigm: Ana Stankovic

Fluidigm has appointed Ana Stankovic to its board of directors. Stankovic is currently managing partner at Koliada Consulting, a firm focused on biotech, medical devices, and in vitro diagnostics. Previously, she was senior vice president for worldwide regional medical affairs and global health at Becton Dickinson. She served in senior roles at BD for more than a decade, leading medical affairs and clincal operations for various BD units. Prior to this, Stankovic was an associate clinical professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She also served for two years as a guest lecturer in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and is a former chief resident in the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The Scan

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