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Dr. Persing first joined us as a director in May 2004, and then became our Executive Vice President and Chief Medical and Technology Officer in August 2005. Dr. Persing was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Corixa Corporation, a Seattle-based biotechnology company, until their acquisition by GlaxoSmithKline in July 2005. From 1990 to 1999 he was a member of the Clinical and Research Faculty of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where he research programs on hepatitis viruses and tick-borne infections. In 1992 he founded and directed the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, which pioneered many of the diagnostic techniques used in molecular pathology laboratories today. He has authored over 240 peer-reviewed articles and served as Editor in Chief for 3 textbooks on Molecular Diagnostics, the most recent of which was published by ASM press in December 2004. | 