SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV), a developer of transrenal molecular diagnostics, announced today that Dr. Paul Billings has joined the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board. A board certified internist and clinical geneticist, Dr. Paul R. Billings currently serves as Chief Medical Officer at Life Technologies Corporation. Dr. Billings brings extensive expertise and clinical experience in the areas of genomics and molecular medicine.
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“We are honored that Dr. Billings will be collaborating with Trovagene,” states Antonius Schuh, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Trovagene. “He specializes in improving patient care through expanding the use of medically relevant genomic technologies in clinical settings,” he continues, “and his expertise is critical he helps shape policy in the rapidly evolving field of genomic medicine.”
Dr. Billings has had a distinguished career as a physician, business executive and researcher. He has authored nearly 200 publications and books on genomic medicine and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration, the Genomic Medicine Advisory Committee at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Genomics. Most recently, he served as Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Genomic Medicine Institute at El Camino Hospital, the largest community hospital in the Silicon Valley. Previously, he was senior vice president for corporate development at Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp). He has been a founder or chief executive officer of companies involved in genetic and diagnostic medicine, including GeneSage Inc., Omicia, Inc. and CELLective Dx Corporation. Dr. Billings has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as a physician at a number of medical centers throughout the country, including the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Billings holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in immunology, also from Harvard University.
About Trovagene, Inc.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Trovagene is developing its patented technology for the detection of transrenal DNA and RNA, short nucleic acid fragments, originating from normal and diseased cell death that cross the kidney barrier and can be detected in urine. Trovagene is leveraging its intellectual property in oncogene mutations via out-licensing and use of its transrenal technologies to extend oncogene mutation detection using urine as a sample. As a non-invasive and abundant sample, urine may overcome many of the cost and collection challenges associated with biopsy, as well as the volume limitations of blood.
Trovagene has a strong patent position as it relates to transrenal molecular testing. It has U.S. and European patent applications and issued patents that cover testing for HPV and other infectious diseases, cancer, transplantation, prenatal and genetic testing. In addition, it owns worldwide rights to nucleophosmin-1 (NPM1), an informative biomarker for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and mutations in the SF3B1 gene, which have been shown to be associated with chemotherapy response in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients.
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Trovagene, Inc.
Charlie Rodi
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
+1 (858) 952-7670
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