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bioAffinity Technologies Expands Diagnostic Division with Promotions and New Hires to Strengthen Clinical Bench
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIAF; BIAFW), a biotechnology company addressing the need for noninvasive diagnosis of
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nbioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIAF; BIAFW), a biotechnology company addressing the need for noninvasive diagnosis of early-stage cancer and diseases of the lung, as well as targeted cancer treatment, today announced that they have made a key promotion and additions to their staff.\n\nJennifer Rebeles, Ph.D., has been promoted to Vice President of Diagnostics. Dr. Rebeles joined bioAffinity in 2019 as Director of Diagnostics where she led the team of scientists in the research and development of the company’s first product, CyPath® Lung, an automated flow cytometry tests that has shown high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of early-stage lung cancer. Dr. Rebeles was a research scientist with the United States Air Force 59th Medical Wing for Science and Technology where she performed recurring analyses on research portfolios to identify critical gaps in military medicine and proposed new projects to address those needs. Prior to that, she served as the Flow Cytometry and Microarray Technical Director at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX. Dr. Rebeles received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health with training in nutritional immunology by investigating the effects of obesity on the immune response to influenza infection.\n\n“Dr. Rebeles has shown exceptional leadership and scientific acumen in development and commercialization of CyPath® Lung,” said bioAffinity Executive Vice President and Chief Medical and Science Officer Vivienne Rebel, MD, Ph.D. “She is an expert in flow cytometry, a technology that is the foundation of our diagnostic platform. Her promotion to Vice President is well earned, given the precision and exacting approach to research and management.”\n\nIn addition, Rossella Titone, Ph.D., and Alvaro Souto Padron de Figueiredo, Ph.D., have joined bioAffinity as research scientists in the company’s Diagnostics Division.\n\nDr. Titone joins bioAffinity from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute where, as a Postdoctoral Scientist, she conducted biomedical research in the study of molecular mechanisms of viral dissemination and also spent several years as a researcher at the University of Texas ...