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Pacific Biosciences Further Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Dr. Catherine Ball to Newly Created Position of Senior Vice President of Research
Kathleen Lynch has joined as Head of Global Government Affairs and Communications and Michele Farmer has joined as Chief Accounting Officer MENLO PARK,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Kathleen Lynch has joined as Head of Global Government Affairs and Communications and Michele Farmer has joined as Chief Accounting Officer\nMENLO PARK, Calif., May 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing platforms, today announced the appointment of three new hires to its growing team. Dr. Catherine Ball joins the company as Senior Vice President of Research, Kathleen Lynch joins as Head of Global Government Affairs and Corporate Communications, and Michele Farmer joins as Chief Accounting Officer. Dr. Ball is a product of the California education system having completed her PhD in Molecular Biology at UCLA and her Postdoctoral research at Berkeley prior to 17 years at Stanford. Most recently, she was the Chief Scientific Officer of AncestryDNA where over the course of nine years she built and led a team of population geneticists, statisticians, computer scientists and laboratory scientists to create the scientific roadmap, genotyping platform, and analytical approaches behind the AncestryDNA and AncestryHealth direct-to-consumer products and services. “Cathy is a proven, high-impact executive and scientist with the personal mission to bring the benefits of genomics to people around the world,” shared Mark Van Oene, Chief Operations Officer at PacBio. “In building and leading this new function, Cathy will focus on expanding the team and directing investments into early research and technology development activities to broaden our toolkit and feed our product development pipeline so we can positively impact health care innovation.” “It is an exciting time to join PacBio and I am honored to have the opportunity to join the talented teams as we make research and collaboration investments to further explore PacBio’s current products, open new long-read markets with complete applications and investigate additional technologies and approaches to build a multi-omic portfolio,” said Dr. Catherine Ball, Senior Vice President of Research at PacBio. Kathy Lynch brings a deep and diverse background in healthcare and biotech, to this newly created role to lead global government affairs and corporate communications. Kathy joins PacBio from Illumina where she started the company’s government affairs efforts in 2015 and served as the Vice Pres...