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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Guy Harmelin

Oct 02, 2020

Guy Harmelin has been appointed as a non-executive director of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, effective September 17. Previously, he was on the leadership team at Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services, the largest insurance group in Israel. Prior to that, he was the cofounder and CEO of RondinX, a computational microbiome analysis company that was acquired by BiomX in 2017. Harmelin holds an MD from the University of Florence in Italy. 

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