Pandemic containment in the United States has proved ineffective due to a lack of preparation and deployment of modern pathogen-detection technologies. Improved point-of-care molecular diagnostics will save lives when the next pandemic emerges.
Dr Jack Regan
Dr. Regan is the inventor of the company’s automated pathogen detection system, MiQLab™. Before founding LexaGene, he led a team of scientists at Bio-Rad Laboratories in developing tests for detecting pathogens, cancer, and neurological disorders using droplet digital PCR.
Prior to Bio-Rad, Jack helped QuantaLife, a startup company, bring its product from concept to commercialization where it was subsequently acquired by Bio-Rad. He has also worked at Applied Biosystems/Life Technologies on automated sample preparation and did his post-doctoral training at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he developed automated instruments to detect respiratory pathogens and bio-threat agents for the US government’s BioWatch program.
His doctoral training at the University of California San Francisco focused on influenza viral replication.