Genetic Analysis AS announce that GA is strengthening and future-proofing the organization within business development, sales, and
product development to be better positioned to harvest opportunities in the microbiome market. As diagnostics is now becoming a vital part of the treatment regime for gastroenterological disorders, GA believes that the microbiome diagnostic market will continue to rapidly increase in the coming years.  Following the recent regulatory approval of microbiome-altering drugs in the US, GA also sees a significant increase in opportunities
to add several new markers on the GA-map® platform. GA announce that GA's Chief Technology Officer Kari Furu has accepted the new position as Head of Business and Product Development. Kari and GA's development teams have developed innovative products for GA, and its product development within IBD attracted strong interest recently as a finalist in the Lyfebulb and Bristol Myers Squibb Innovation Challenge addressing unmet needs in IBD. GA announce that Ms. Pranvera Hiseni has accepted the position of Development Manager, reporting to the Head of Business and Product Development, where she will be responsible for GA's development projects. Pranvera has worked in GA's development department with a key focus on platform development and has also been instrumental in building up the HumGut Database, a comprehensive human gut metagenome collection. After the implementation of the new organization, the management team will consist of: Ronny Hermansen (CEO); Eilert Aamodt (CFO); Cristina Casén (Senior VP Clinical & Medical Affairs); Lars Tiller (Head of Operations); Kari Furu (Head of Business and Product Development); Detlef Janke (Commercial Director). With these new organizational changes, the previous responsibilities of the CTO and CCO will be implemented under the Product and Software development team and the clinical team. The new organization will be implemented immediately.