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Edward Chait, Director, is currently an independent consultant in the Life Sciences. Dr. Chait received an A.B. degree in Chemistry from Cornell University in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University in 1968. He was most recently Chief Business Officer of Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., West Lafayette, IN, a Contract Research Organization providing drug development services and innovative instruments to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. At BASI he was responsible for all of the company's Commercial Operations. Prior to joining BASI in 2005, Dr. Chait, was the CEO of Spectral Genomics, Houston, TX, an emerging, innovative company pioneering cytogenetic analysis with nucleic acid arrays. Spectral was purchased by Perkin-Elmer in May, 2006. Dr. Chait was CEO of PharmaCore, Inc. in High Point, NC, a small molecule drug discovery company providing molecular building blocks, custom organic synthesis and GMP services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies from 2001-2003. Dr. Chait began his career at Du Pont where for 23 years, he held positions of increasing responsibility in R&D, sales and marketing and became Director of Licensing and Acquisitions for the Biotechnology and Diagnostics Division of the Company. In this role, he initiated DuPont's genetics instruments business and negotiated licenses for DuPont technology with other companies. Earlier, he managed the DuPont mass spectrometer instrument business. After leaving DuPont, Dr. Chait became Sr. VP, Business and Technology Development at Intergen Company, Purchase, NY. At Intergen, an innovator and manufacturer of biochemicals and research products, he implemented a program of strategic acquisitions, growing Intergen over a decade until Serologicals Corporation acquired it. He has also served on the Visiting Committee of NIST, the US Israel Technology Commission of the Department of Commerce, and the Advisory Board of the Purdue University Cancer Center. He is a member of the Board of Directors of three biotechnology companies.
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