Willem Westra

Will has over a decade of experience in emerging molecular diagnostic technologies for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries. Will is responsible for developing strategic collaborations and partnerships with top 50 pharma companies, leading academic and clinical institutes and non-profit foundations. Prior to joining the company, he was one of the founding members of the US team at Genedata and helped establish the commercialization path for a portfolio software product for large molecule R&D. Will started his career was with Selventa, a Cambridge, MA based companion diagnostics company where he led consulting projects with pharma partners to support efforts for patient stratification in clinical trials, identification of molecular subtypes of disease, and construction of network models of disease biology. Will earned a BS in Pharmacological Chemistry and a PhD in Biomedical Science from the University of California, San Diego.