Douglas Horejsh,
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. Douglas Horejsh is a Senior Research Scientist in the Protein and Nucleic Acid Analysis Division of Research & Development at Promega Corporation. He is interested in development of nucleic acid purification systems to yield high quality nucleic acids from challenging starting samples. His group develops purification chemistries in manual, Maxwell® and large instrument formats, along with fluorescent dyes for nucleic acid detection.
Prior to joining Promega, Douglas was a clinical lab director for a molecular pathology company in Virginia. His work focused on identification, evaluation, validation, and integration of IVD and LDT assays in a clinical lab setting. He also managed BSL-3 facilities and led research on emerging/biodefense pathogens. Prior to moving to the East Coast, Douglas worked for 4 years in the Virology Department of the Italian National Institute for Infectious Diseases in assay development.
Douglas has authored 20 journal articles and is an inventor of issued world and Italian patents. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and trained as a post-doc at the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, MD.
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