Dr. Alan Williams has a history of proven and deep expertise in product development, and in scaling clinical laboratory operations, from his senior executive roles at Somalogic, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Ion Torrent), and Affymetrix. Alan has developed, launched, and scaled up multiple industry-defining products. Most recently as Chief Development Officer of SomaLogic, where his responsibilities included oversight of assay and software development, data science, bioinformatics, information technology, and lab operations, he delivered proteomic analysis at scale. Prior to SomaLogic, he developed the first benchtop high throughput NGS platform at Ion Torrent and the first transcriptome-on-a-chip platform at Affymetrix, complete with sophisticated bioinformatic and data science solutions.
Alan earned a bachelor’s degree in plant biology from the University of California, Davis, and a doctorate in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of California, Riverside.
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