Stu Heilsberg

Biography

Stu joined WuXi NextCODE in January 2016 as our Vice President of Product Experience. His team’s charter is to identify, validate and build with users, the right experiences to solve the biggest challenges in genomics for the pharmaceutical, clinical and consumer markets. Stu has an extensive background in defining, building and commercializing new products and services in a number of industries. In 2006, connected health and mobile services began to pull him toward healthcare and genomics, and since then his primary focus has been to make genomic data easy-to-use and actionable, and to drive the adoption of innovative products based on sequence information. He has done this through executive business development and product management roles, strategic consulting, advising and collaborating. Prior to joining WuXi NextCODE, Stu built the life sciences practice at Medullan, a design and development agency focused exclusively on healthcare. During that time leading sequencing, laboratory and genomic testing and pharmaceutical companies were brought on as customers. Stu previously held senior roles at Qualcomm, Intuit, and Motorola. At these firms he launched over 20 new products and services, and managed businesses as large at $450 million in annual sales.

Research Interest

pharmaceutical