Personalis, Inc. Appoints Industry Veteran Stephen Moore as General Counsel

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[{"type":"text","content":" MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nPersonalis, Inc., (Nasdaq: PSNL) a leader in advanced genomics for cancer, today announced the appointment Stephen Moore as General Counsel.\n\n\n“We are very pleased to welcome Stephen to the Personalis team. He has an impressive track record with more than 20 years of in-house legal experience at advanced genomics companies,” said John West, President and Chief Executive Officer of Personalis. “This expertise will provide critical support as we advance Personalis.”\n\n\nMr. Moore joins Personalis after a decade at Pacific Biosciences (NASDAQ: PACB), where he served as General Counsel. Prior to Pacific Biosciences, Mr. Moore was General Counsel at Navigenics, a consumer genomics company that was later acquired by Life Technologies (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific). Prior to Navigenics, he worked for over eight years at DNA microarray pioneer Affymetrix (which was also later acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), where he was most recently an Associate General Counsel. Mr. Moore holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from San Jose State University, and a law degree from the University of California, Davis.\n\n\n“I am pleased to join the Personalis team at this important time for the company,” said Mr. Moore. “After many years working at leading genomics tool and service providers with a shared vision that providing increasingly more comprehensive genomic information is critical to advancing our understanding of biological processes, I am enthusiastic to take part in the large-scale application of that vision to human health as Personalis grows its commercial operations and seeks to expand its market presence in immuno-oncology and potentially other disease areas, and in population-sized genome sequencing projects such as the VA MVP.”\n\n\nAbout Personalis, Inc.\n\n\nPersonalis, Inc. is a growing cancer genomics company transforming the development of next-generation therapies by providing more comprehensive molecular data about each patient’s cancer and immune response. The Personalis ImmunoID NeXT Platform™ is designed to adapt to the complex and evolving understanding of cancer, providing its biopharmaceutical customers with information on all of the approximately 20,000 human genes, together with the immune system, from a single tissue sample. Personalis also provides...

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