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febit Appoints Jack Leonard, Ph.D., Vice President of Technology Commercialization

05 Dec 2008 - febit holding GmbH announced the appointment of Jack Leonard, Ph.D., to the newly created position of Vice President of Technology Commercialization. He will be based in febit Inc.’s U.S. headquarters, which is located near Boston in Lexington, MA.
 
In this new role, Dr. Leonard will apply his 15 years of product development experience in the life sciences to help accelerate the commercialization of febit’s Geniom Platform and applications. Leonard will also head-up the febit Analytical Services Group in the U.S., which offers the HybSelect™ sequence capture service for DNA resequencing, as well as a wide range of microRNA (miRNA) and gene expression profiling services.
 
Leonard received his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Connecticut, and completed his post-doctoral research at New England Biolabs. Prior to joining febit, he was Director of Genomics and Molecular Biology at Millipore; R&D Director at U.S. Genomics; and most recently, Director of Process Development at Codon Devices, where he led the team that integrated automation, microfluidics, and molecular biology methods to build a high production DNA fabrication platform.