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Predictive Oncology: Dan Handley

Feb 21, 2020

Predictive Oncology has appointed Dan Handley to its board of directors. Handley is a professor and director of the Clinical and Translational Genome Research Institute of Southern California University. Previously, he was chief scientific officer of the Clinical and Translational Genome Research Institute, a Florida-based non-profit. He also previously served as chief scientific officer for Advanced Healthcare Technology Solutions; as a senior researcher at Procter & Gamble; a senior administrator, researcher, and laboratory manager at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine; and as a founding biotechnology inventor for the National Genetics Institute.

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