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Joseph Beechem

CSO and SVP of R&D, Nanostring Technologies, US
Biography

Joe Beechem joined NanoString in 2012 as the Senior Vice President of Research and Development and is now also the company’s Chief Scientific Officer. He has become a scientific powerhouse for the company, co-inventing 3D Biology – the simultaneous profiling of DNA, RNA, and Protein on the nCounter® system – as well as the GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP), which affords highly-multiplexed and quantitative profiling of RNA and protein from tissue sections in user-defined geographic regions of interest. Dr. Beechem leads a multidisciplinary team at NanoString based in Seattle, WA where he and his colleagues develop innovative technology platforms and assays based on the company’s nucleic-acid based optical barcodes for multiplexed quantification of biomolecules. At NanoString, he has played an integral role in bringing the Hyb and Seq™ chemistry to life, making NGS from FFPE sections without library prep a reality.

Dr. Beechem is an author on over 150 peer-reviewed papers in diverse fields: biomathematics, physics, chemistry, physiology, spectroscopy, diagnostics, medicine and biology. He received a doctorate in Biophysics from The Johns Hopkins University and started his career as a tenure-track faculty member at Vanderbilt University. His varied skills were sought-after in industry; in 2004, he joined Invitrogen as their Chief Science/Technology Officer and quickly rose to become the Head of R&D, Advanced Sequencing Technologies.

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