Compass Lab Services Hires 62 from Bankrupt Atherotech Diagnostics Lab

Memphis-based Compass Laboratory Services has hired much of the workforce of a Birmingham, Ala., cardiology lab company that recently filed bankruptcy.

Dr. Divyen Patel, chief scientific officer at Genome Explorations. The company is adding 10,000 square feet and will need 50,000 square feet in the near future to accommodate expansions, company officials say.

Compass is a diagnostic lab services company that uses pharmacogenomics, the study of how genes affect a person’s response to medication, and molecular diagnostics, which analyzes biological markers in patients’ genomes.

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