Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. Welcomes Neil Ward as Vice President and General Manager for Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region
June 08, 2021 at 02:00 am EDT
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. announced that it welcomed Neil Ward to the new role of Vice President and General Manager for the company’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region to expand and develop the team and infrastructure to capitalize on the immense potential for genomics in this area of the world. Neil is a genomics industry veteran with more than two decades of global experience. He most recently served as Senior Sales Director for Northern Europe at Illumina. In his various commercial roles, Neil has served as a key contributor in many of the world’s large genomics projects including Genomics England’s 100,000 Genome Project, the Estonian Genome Project, and the whole genome sequencing of the 500,000 UK Biobank samples. Prior to his 13 years at Illumina, Neil held bioinformatics and sales roles at leading institutions, including Agilent, Silicon Genetics, Oxford Biomedica and Celltech.
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. is a life science technology company. It is engaged in designing, developing, and manufacturing advanced sequencing solutions that enable scientists and clinical researchers to resolve genetically complex problems. Its products and technology under development stem from two differentiated core technologies, which include its HiFi long-read sequencing technology and its Sequencing by Binding (SBB) short-read sequencing technology. Its products address solutions across a set of applications, including human genetics, plant and animal sciences, infectious disease and microbiology, oncology, and other emerging applications. It has developed HiFi long-read sequencing based on Single-Molecule Real-Time technology, which accurately detects the nucleotide sequence and epigenetic status of individual DNA molecules. Its Revio, Sequel, Sequel II and Sequel IIe instruments conduct, monitor, and analyze single-molecule biochemical reactions in real time.
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