– USA, CA – Personalis, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSNL), a leader in advanced genomics for precision oncology, today announced the appointment of Karin Eastham as new Board Chair effective from AGM on May 17, 2022, to succeed Dr. Jonathan MacQuitty, who has decided not to stand for his re-election.
About Karin Eastham
Ms. Eastham joined the Personalis Board in 2019 and has chaired both its Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Ms. Eastham earlier served on the Illumina Board, from 2004 to 2019. During that time Illumina acquired Solexa and became the world leader in DNA sequencing, and also launched multiple initiatives enabling its customers to leverage the technology in diagnostics, including oncology, NIPT, infectious disease and numerous inherited genetic conditions. Since 2012, Ms. Eastham has also served on the board of Veracyte, an advanced genomic diagnostic company. During that time, Veracyte’s annual revenue has grown from approximately $11.6 million to over $200 million.
“I am honored to be selected as Personalis’ next Board Chair at this exciting time in the company’s growth. I look forward to working closely with my fellow Board members and the company’s management team to help achieve Personalis’ vision of pharma and diagnostics businesses benefitting synergistically from a common base of increasingly advanced technologies,” said Karin Eastham.
About Personalis
Personalis, Inc. is a leader in advanced cancer genomics for enabling the next generation of precision cancer therapies and diagnostics. The Personalis NeXT Platform is designed to adapt to the complex and evolving understanding of cancer, providing its biopharmaceutical customers and clinicians with information on all of the approximately 20,000 human genes, together with the immune system, from a single sample. To enable cancer sequencing, Personalis’ Clinical Laboratory was built with a focus on clinical accuracy, quality, big data, scale and efficiency. The laboratory is GxP-aligned as well as Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988-certified and College of American Pathologists-accredited.
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