Joe Don (jd) Heath
Vice President
Market Development,
Nugen
India
Biography
Joe Don has been a scientific leader and customer advocate at NuGEN since 2003, in which time he has worn a number of hats, including leadership roles in technical service, training, collaborations, and marketing, to name a few. He presently is responsible for market development in diagnostics and emerging markets and still enjoys a hands-on role in developing and deploying assays on customer robotics systems. Prior to joining NuGEN, JD worked at Incyte Genomics in Palo Alto where he was scientific lead for the PathoSeq microbial database and LifeTools analysis platforms as well as head of the Field Application Science team. JD earned his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in plant-microbe interactions at the University of Washington in Seattle. JD’s calling outside of work is to bring joy to the lives of his friends, family, church community and friends he has yet to meet through the creation of good music and the brewing of good beer.
Research Interest
Genomics, Molecular biology, Business management
