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Thomas J. Meade is the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Physiology and Radiology at Northwestern University. He has founded three successful start-up companies based on his research at the California Institute of Technology and Northwestern University: Clinical Micro Sensors (CMS) which is developing electrochemical sensors for the detection of nucleic acids, Metaprobe which has focused on in vivo biochemically-activated magnetic resonance contrast agents, and PreDx, a company also focused on imaging technologies. CMS was acquired by Motorola in 2000 for $300 million. Dr. Meade is currently the inventor on more than 70 patents and patent applications, including those that Ohmx has licensed from CMS and Northwestern University. | 