Personalis Further Expands Leadership Team With Appointment of Leslie Grab, VP of Intellectual Property and John Lyle, VP of Assay Research and Development

MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#PrecisionOncology–Personalis, Inc., (Nasdaq: PSNL) a leader in advanced genomics for cancer, today announced the appointment of Leslie Grab as VP of Intellectual Property and John Lyle as VP of Assay Research and Development.

Dr. Grab joins Personalis from Verily Life Sciences (a Google spin-out), where she was responsible for worldwide patent & trademark strategy and portfolio development across multiple product areas. Prior to that, Dr. Grab worked at the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, where she focused on patent prosecution, technology transactions, and patent litigation in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and medical diagnostics. Dr. Grab holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Wake Forest University and a BA in Chemistry from Catawba College, North Carolina. She earned her law degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she also served as a Post-Doctoral Associate researching the inter-relationship between exosomes and ovarian cancer.

Dr. Lyle joins Personalis after 14 years at Pacific Biosciences (NASDAQ: PACB), where he most recently served as Senior Director of Single Molecule Sequencing focusing on reagent, system, and application development of long-read, ultra-high accuracy sequencing. Dr. Lyle received his PhD from Stanford University in Microbiology and Immunology and holds a BS from Bates College, Maine. Dr. Lyle also served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, studying the structure and function of the centrosome.

“We’re very pleased to have such experienced professionals join our management team here at Personalis,” said John West, Personalis CEO. (Read more…) “The life sciences experience that both Drs. Grab and Lyle bring to the organization will assist us to continue our history of developing innovative and proprietary genomics solutions to address the needs of our pharmaceutical and institutional partners across the globe.”

About Personalis, Inc.

Personalis, 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 genomic information to the VA Million Veterans Program as part of their goal to sequence over a million veteran genomes. The Personalis Clinical Laboratory is GxP-aligned as well as CLIA’88-certified and CAP-accredited. For more information, please visit www.personalis.com and follow Personalis on Twitter (@PersonalisInc).

Forward-Looking Statements

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