Christina Waters, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of Rare Science, a California-based nonprofit that helps children with rare diseases and their families find diagnoses and treatments. She has now joined genomics firm WuXi NextCODE as senior VP, focusing on its rare disease programs.

Her responsibilities will still include using networks and social media to identify and reach out to patients and patient communities, but this time around for a much larger platform.

“Building on our large-scale work, [Waters] is going to take our platform to the next level: putting it directly at the service of patients and families in urgent need,” WuXi NextCODE CEO Hannes Smarason, said in a statement. “Connected with each other and armed with sequence and medical data, we and patients, partnering with research institutions, healthcare systems and pharmaceutical companies, are going to be able to solve and eventually treat more rare disease cases.”

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