I received my PhD in Biochemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State University. I have been at Luminex for 14 years. Before joining Luminex I had over 30 years of research and industry experience with the development of a wide variety of biochemical, genetic, proteomic, immunology, microscopy, cellular, molecular biology assays and bioinformatic tools. These technologies were applied to studying genetic and environmental factors contributing to the susceptibility or resistance to a number of infectious and non-infectious diseases. This includes studies on disease mechanisms or treatments in the areas of endocrinology, cancer, obesity, diabetes and the development of DNA vaccines. These research efforts employed cellular, mouse and non-human primate model systems. This diversified experience has been applied to developing and supporting commercial applications for cellular genetic engineering, bioinformatic data analysis as well the development of genomic and proteomic assay platforms for research and diagnostics. This experience is now available for supporting the development of several applications on the Luminex xMAP platform.