Donald Brown

Vice President, Laboratory Operations at Personalis

Donald Brown has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies. Donald currently holds the position of Vice President, Laboratory Operations at Personalis, Inc. since July 2022. Previously, they worked at Guardant Health as Sr. Director, Clinical Operations, MRD | TissueNEXT from October 2021 to July 2022, and as Director of Clinical Operations from October 2020 to October 2021. Prior to that, they were the Director, Laboratory and Systems, Operations at 23andMe from September 2018 to October 2020. Donald also served as Director, Automation & Screening at Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. from January 2018 to September 2018. Before that, they held the position of Director, Molecular Biology, Research Services at Thermo Fisher Scientific from March 2016 to January 2018. Donald'searlier roles include Director and Associate Director positions at Affymetrix from July 2014 to March 2016 and May 2013 to June 2014 respectively, and Senior Manager position from April 2010 to June 2013. Donald also worked as a Co-Owner/Operator at JP and Associates from January 2005 to March 2010, and as Manager, High Throughput Biology at Sagres Discovery from 2001 to 2005. Donald'searliest position was as a Scientist, Genomics at Celera Corporation from December 1997 to January 2001.

Donald Brown earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of California, Davis, with an emphasis on molecular and cellular biology, from 1995 to 1997. Donald also obtained various certifications in data science and Python from Coursera, including "Databases and SQL for Data Science," "Python for Data Science and AI," "Data Science Methodology," "Data Science Orientation," "Open Source Tools for Data Science," "Using Python to Access Web Data," "Python Data Structures," and "Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)." The years of obtaining these certifications range from 2016 to 2020.

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  • Vice President, Laboratory Operations

    July, 2022 - present

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