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Shivom: George Church

Mar 30, 2021

George Church has become a cofounder of Shivom, a London-based genomics and healthcare data analytics and platform provider. He is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and a professor of health sciences and technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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