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Shield Diagnostics: David Esposito

Sep 06, 2019

David Esposito has been appointed to the board of directors of Shield Diagnostics, a San Jose, California-based rapid molecular diagnostics firm developing assays for resistance-guided therapy. Esposito is currently CEO of ONL Therapeutics. He formerly served as CEO of Armune BioScience, a company that was sold to Exact Sciences in 2017, and he also served as President of Phadia US, an allergy and autoimmune diagnostics firm, playing a pivotal role in selling the business to Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2011.

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