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Konstantinos Zarbalis

Assistant professor
University of California, Davis

Konstantinos Zarbalis is assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of California, Davis and assistant investigator at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Sacramento, California.

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