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Uta Francke, Val Sheffield, Kevin Campbell, Howard Worman, Benjamin Tycko

Nov 22, 2017

MNG Laboratories has added five members to its scientific advisory board. The new members are Uta Francke, professor emerita in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine; Val Sheffield, professor of pediatrics and ophthalmology and director of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Kevin Campbell, professor of neurology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Howard Worman, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at Columbia University; and Benjamin Tycko, senior scientist in the Department of Biomedical Research at Hackensack University Medical Center.

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