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Video: CEO Francis deSouza Speaks at Aspen Ideas: Health

Shares views on actions needed to bring genomics to the patients who need it

CEO Francis deSouza Speaks at Aspen Ideas: Health
August 5, 2019

Genomics is here, today. Genomics is changing lives, today. And it’s up to all of us to make sure that everyone can benefit.

Francis deSouza, President and CEO of Illumina, Inc., took the stage at Aspen Ideas: Health in Colorado to educate the audience on the impact genomics is having across healthcare, and the urgency in bringing its benefits to more people, more quickly.

After his talk, Francis joined fellow speakers Walter Isaacson of the Aspen Institute and Tulane University and Vinod Jaskula-Ranga of Hunterian Medicine in a discussion moderated by NPR correspondent Alison Kodjak.

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