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Yourgene: Scott Sargent

Mar 17, 2021

Scott Sargent has been appointed as VP of sales for North America at Yourgene. Most recently, he was director of sales for clinical genomics at Qiagen in the US and Canada. Prior to that, he held senior commercial roles at Illumina, and before that, he worked for Luminex and Roche Diagnostics. At Yourgene, he will be responsible for building a North American commercial team and will work closely with the Costal Genomics team to win new customers for the Ranger sample prep technology.

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