Dr. Heaney has held numerous positions within the life sciences industry, most recently as EVP of Research and Technology at Sequenom. Dr. Heaney's team was responsible for the development of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful chip-based MassARRAY Genotyping Platform and the MassARRAY 200K which can be multiplexed to more than one million DNA assays per day. While Head of Bioelectronics at the Sarnoff Corporation, Dr. Heaney's team was awarded a $12 million DARPA grant which led to the spin-out of Orchid BioSciences. Dr. Heaney holds more than 25 patents. |