--Appointment Expands Leadership Team and Strengthens Commercial Focus--
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale platforms for molecular diagnostics, personalized medicine and biomedical research, today announced the appointment of Gary Zweiger, Ph.D., as vice president of business development. Dr. Zweiger has over a decade of strategic business development experience with leading biotechnology and genomics companies. He will focus on expanding BioNanomatrix's commercial and research partnerships for its breakthrough nanoscale whole genome technology platform in multiple markets, including research, diagnostics and personalized medicine.
"Gary's background and experience are close to ideal for our newly created senior business development position, and we are very pleased to have him on board," said Dr. Michael Boyce-Jacino, chief executive officer of BioNanomatrix. "Gary's scientific expertise is directly relevant to our end-user markets and his extensive business development and alliance management experience should be invaluable as we expand our network of collaborations and commercial partnerships."
BioNanomatrix is applying its expertise in nanochips, nanodevices and nanosystems to develop its platform technology providing fast, comprehensive and low-cost analysis of genomic, epigenomic and proteomic information with sensitivity at the single-molecule level. Among its current development efforts is a federally funded project in partnership with Complete Genomics Inc. for very low-cost sequencing of the human genome.
"This is an exciting time to join BioNanomatrix as the company is advancing a potentially transformative single-molecule, whole genome sorting and imaging technology that will enable scientists to analyze clinically relevant DNA sequence variation, copy number and positional information, and to do so mu
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