The Affymetrix Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Mike Hoerres, CEO, Cernostics

Jing-Shan “Jennifer” Hu, vice president and head of innovation center China, global drug discovery, Bayer Healthcare

Earl Hubbell, principal statistician, Ion Torrent Systems

Ed Hurwitz, director, Alta Partners [Added: 10:45 am, 5/3/12]

Elizabeth Hutt, CEO, NuGEN Technologies

Lee Jacobek, director of product management, Thomson Reuters

Maneesh Jain, vice president of business development and marketing, Ion Torrent Systems

Hywel Jones, healthcare consultant

Steve Karas, independent biotechnology professional (says he’s “retired and enjoying life”)

George Karlin-Neumann, senior director of diagnostics assay development, QuantaLife

Debbie Keenan, manager, service and support, Illumina

Chris Kendrick-Parker, chief commercial officer, Cellular Dynamics International

Guilia Kennedy, chief scientific officer, Veracyte

Mitchell Kennedy, vice president and general manager, LSR-Genomics, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Neil Kennedy, vice president of sales, DVS Sciences

Elizabeth Kerr, senior director of qPCR strategy and portfolio/program management, Life Technologies

David King, interactive producer, iTunes, Apple

Lutz Kirchrath, managing director of Europe and Asia Pacific, NuGEN Technologies

Karen Kirk, owner, KLK Consulting

Jamie Kole, vice president of finance and administration, Ion Torrent Systems

Thane Kreiner, executive director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University.

Lori Lai, senior scientific affairs manager, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics

Pamela Lambert, vice president of program, quality and compliance management, Pathwork Diagnostics

Dirk Lammerts, managing director, digital health, Burrill & Co. [Added: 3:55 pm, 5/3/12]

Trace Lane, business development manager, Sequenom

Janet Lankard, vice president of commercial operations, North America, BioScale

Griffen Lauer, western district sales manager, Fluidigm

Jennifer Leib, partner, HealthFutures

Mike Lelivelt, director of bioinformatics, Ion Torrent Systems

Jake Leschly, CEO, Ingenuity Systems

Chip Leveille, chief operating officer, BioScale

Chunmei Liu, staff scientist, Life Technologies

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.