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Appointment of Francis Van Parys as Chief Executive Officer
OXFORD, England, December 08, 2025--Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company delivering a new generation of molecular sensing technology based on nanopores, today announces the appointment of Francis Van Parys as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"). Francis will join the Company and the Board as an Executive Director on 2 March 2026.
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