GRAIL Appoints Satnam Alag as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering
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MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GRAIL, Inc., a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured, today announced the appointment of Satnam Alag, PhD, as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. In his new role, Dr. Alag will be responsible for providing the leadership, strategic vision, and operational execution for GRAIL’s software teams. “Satnam will drive the development and execution of GRAIL’s software strategy, and will be a tremendous asset as we advance our multi-cancer early detection test with the ultimate goal of decreasing cancer mortality.” “GRAIL is a truly innovative company that is leveraging the convergence of advances in genomics and machine learning to transform healthcare through the early detection of cancer,” said Dr. Alag. I look forward to supporting the development of its multi-cancer early detection test, and being part of the transition from screening for individual cancers, to screening individuals for all cancers.” Dr. Alag joins GRAIL from Illumina, where he most recently served as Vice President of Software Engineering, Product Development. Prior to this, he was the Chief Technology Officer at NextBio, a big-data platform that aggregates and analyzes large quantities of phenotypic and genomic data that was acquired by Illumina in 2013.