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Laboratory for Advanced Medicine: Aarif Nakhooda

Dec 19, 2019

Laboratory for Advanced Medicine has appointed Aarif Nakhooda as CFO. He was most recently CFO of Amazon Retail Singapore. He also previously served as head of finance for Amazon Prime worldwide and Amazon Prime Transportation. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked in transaction advisory services for Ernst & Young. Based in Irvine, California, Laboratory for Advanced Medicine is commercializing tests for the early detection of cancer from a blood draw by using AI technology to identify cfDNA methylation patterns.

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