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Varian: Phil Febbo

Aug 21, 2019

Varian has appointed Phil Febbo to its board of directors. Febbo currently serves as chief medical officer at Illumina as well as on the board of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Foundation. Prior to joining Illumina, he served as CMO at Genomic Health. Before working at Genomic Health, Febbo was a professor of medicine and urology at the University of California, San Francisco. 

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