Month: June 2023

SECAUCUS, N.J., June 9, 2023 /3BL Media/ – Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, recently announced that its Board of Directors has elected Luis A. Diaz, Jr., M.D. to serve as a director. Including Dr. Diaz, the company’s Board has 10 members. 

Dr. Diaz, 52, has been Head of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since December 2016. Previously, he was a faculty member and physician at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has founded several biotechnology companies, including Epitope, Inostics, PapGene (Thrive) and Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc.

“Dr. Diaz is not only a leader in advanced oncology research, but he also cares for patients with colorectal and pancreatic cancers and has been a successful entrepreneur. The wealth of expertise and experience Dr. Diaz brings will be very helpful, including as we expand our presence in molecular oncology and genomics,” said Jim Davis, Chairman, CEO and President of Quest Diagnostics. “I am very pleased to welcome him to our Board.”

Timothy M. Ring, Lead Independent Director, added: “Dr. Diaz brings a strong background of research, innovation and clinical care. We are fortunate that he has joined our Board.”

Dr. Diaz’s early work provided the first definitive evidence for using circulating tumor DNA as a cancer biomarker for screening, monitoring, and detection of occult disease. He discovered the therapeutic link between immunotherapy and cancer genetics in patients with mismatch repair deficient tumors, which led to the first tumor agnostic FDA approval for tumors with this genetic lesion and the first cancer study, published in 2022, that resulted in a 100% complete remission rate.

Dr. Diaz has also been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including being appointed by President Biden in 2021 to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Diaz received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan and completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins.

About Quest Diagnostics 
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world’s largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our nearly 50,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. www.QuestDiagnostics.com

SOURCE Quest Diagnostics

Sunrise at Fults Farms means more than waking up and milking their 100 cows. It means the sun’s rays have arrived to power the farm for the day.

The family-owned dairy farm in Evans Mills recently installed 30 solar photovoltaic cells to provide up to 12 kilowatts of additional renewable energy to its farm operations. The initiative benefitted from a $10,000 Agribusiness Productivity program rebate from National Grid, as well as incentives available through NYSERDA.

Owner Joe Fults says the latest expansion would not have been possible if not for National Grid’s economic development programs.

“Without the incentives from National Grid, we would not have gone through with it,” Fults said. “Securing that funding allowed us to proceed with each phase of solar that we have implemented.”

The latest installation brings the number of solar cells at Fults Farm to 186, which generate 42 kilowatts and provide up to 85% of the farm’s electricity needs. The solar panels help supply heat for the barns and farmhouse, and power the barn’s equipment, including livestock feeders and management systems, and manure management systems. The farm’s previous solar initiatives also benefitted from the company’s rebate program.

“Agriculture is a backbone of the northern New York economy,” said Alberto Bianchetti, National Grid’s regional director of customer and community engagement. “Fults Farms’ investment in solar energy weighs up-front costs against the long-term benefits of generating their own renewable energy, which is one of many reasons why National Grid supports projects such as these.”

National Grid Economic Development Programs

National Grid, through its Agribusiness Productivity program, provides incentives to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy delivery and/or productivity improvements undertaken by dairy businesses, commercial farms and controlled environment agricultural facilities located within the company’s service territory.

Since 2003, National Grid’s 18 economic development programs have provided more than $125 million in assistance, helping to create or retain more than 60,000 jobs and supporting almost $10 billion in private and public investment across upstate New York. More information about National Grid’s suite of programs is available at www.shovelready.com.

About National Grid

National Grid (NYSE: NGG) is an electricity, natural gas, and clean energy delivery company serving more than 20 million people through our networks in New York and Massachusetts. National Grid is focused on building a path to a more affordable, reliable clean energy future through our fossil-free vision. National Grid is transforming our electricity and natural gas networks with smarter, cleaner, and more resilient energy solutions to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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