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Jorge serves as CENTOGENE’s Vice President Medical Genetics. Bringing in over 15 years of leadership experience, he is responsible for overseeing policies, management, and regulations to drive clinical and operational value. Before joining CENTOGENE, Jorge served as the Director of the Molecular Diagnostics and Genomics Labs at CGC Genetics. He holds a medical degree from the University of Porto and is specialized in Rare Disease Genetics, Neurogenetics, Dysmorphology, and Molecular Genetics.

Dr. Florian Vogel currently serves as the Chief Process Officer at CENTOGENE GmbH. Within his role, he holds disciplinary and budget responsibility for all five Diagnostic wet lab production departments in Rostock, Germany, and the CLIA & CAP lab processing facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition, he is responsible for the Method & Process Development in Rostock. Before taking on this position, he served as Senior Director Research & Development from 2015-2018 at CENTOGENE.

Florian has extensive experience in product development and streamlining of workflows for genetically based methods enabling the highest quality as well as high throughput testing. Florian has more than 10 years of know-how in molecular genetic assay design and international leadership in various industry sections.

Prior to joining CENTOGENE, he was living in South Korea to set up a local German branch university and labs for chemical- and bioengineering as Head of the White Biotechnology department, including lab build out and starting industry collaborations.

Florian studied Biology at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nurnberg and received his doctoral degree in Molecular Biology with summa cum laude.