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Health Network Laboratories: Xinjing Wang

Jul 29, 2019

Xinjing Wang has been appointed director of clinical genomics at Health Network Laboratories. Wang is currently associate director of the genetics laboratory, department of pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He also was director of a CLIA-certified genetic lab at the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, and he was medical director of molecular diagnostics laboratory, department of laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Minnesota. 

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