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Johnson Chiang, Rixun Fang

Jul 12, 2018

Johnson Chiang has been appointed chief technology officer and Rixun Fang director of assay development at Alveo Technologies.

Chiang was previously head of systems integration and molecular biology at Foundation Medicine. He also held senior management positions at Life Technologies and at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Prior to that, he led molecular diagnostic product development projects at Applied MEMS, Applied Biosystems, and Cepheid.

Fang previously led several molecular biology research and IVD development projects at Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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