Laurence R. McCarthy, Ph.D., is a Venture Partner with Ampersand Ventures and President of Scientific Technologies and Solutions, LLC. Dr. McCarthy was President, CEO, Chairman and CTO of Focus Diagnostics and later served as its CTO following the company's acquisition by Quest Diagnostics. Prior to this, he was President for the U.S. Diagnostics Division of Boehringer Mannheim and Vice President and General Manager and Vice President R&D for Becton Dickinson & Co. Dr. McCarthy's academic experience includes faculty positions at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Cornell University School of Medicine, as well as serving as a Laboratory Director at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Dr. McCarthy received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire and his B.S. in Biology from St. Anselm College.
These additions bring the total number of members serving on the Genoptix, Inc. board to nine. They join Genoptix, Inc. president and CEO Tina Nova Bennett, Ph.D., board chairman Andrew Senyei, M.D., Robert Curry, Ph.D., Timothy Buono, Michael Henos, Arda Minocherhomjee, Ph.D., and Thomas Waltz, M.D.
About Genoptix, Inc.
Genoptix is a specialized laboratory service provider focused on delivering personalized and comprehensive diagnostic services to community- based hematologists and oncologists. Genoptix is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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