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Dr. Dailey joined us as Vice President, Research and Development, in June 2006. Most recently, Dr. Dailey was the Senior Director of the Department of Infectious Disease in Discovery Research at Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. He is a microbiologist and virologist by training and has worked in the field of diagnostic microbiology for the last 25 years. Dr. Dailey worked as a Public Health Microbiologist at the California State Dept. of Health’s Viral & Rickettsial Disease Laboratory in Berkeley in the 1980s on the development of diagnostic assays for HIV ant HTLV. He also worked many years as a Clinical Laboratory microbiologist in medical centers, hospitals, and reference laboratories. Beginning in 1990, he was employed at Chiron Diagnostics (now Bayer Diagnostics) working on the research, development, and application of nucleic acid probe assays, in particular viral load assays for HCV, HIV, and SIV. He has served as a subcommittee member on the NCCLS committee revising Guidelines for Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Diseases and has authored or co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed papers as well as several book chapters and reviews on infectious disease nucleic acid diagnostic assays. | 