Juan F. Roman, PhD, MBA

VP Business Development at ximedica

Juan F. Roman is a Medical technology business developer with an international world-class technical and commercial background. A career of over twenty years in Diagnostics and MedTech, always working in forefront technologies, with the most recent ten years successfully involved in the organisation of research and development joint ventures with blue-chip healthcare, diagnostics and life sciences companies.

Based in Cambridge, UK, Juan has a BSc in Physics, two MSc in optical technologies, a PhD in optical technologies applied to medical measurements and an MBA

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Title: Challenges to the adoption of Liquid Biopsy

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