Primary Job Title Founder and Chief Scientific Officer Primary Organization 
IROA Technologies
Location Gainesville, Florida, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Chris has more than 25 years of experience in metabolomics, drug discovery and development, and holds 12 patents and 75 publications. His Ph.D. was awarded in Pharmaceutical Sciences (specialty, Natural Products Chemistry and Biochemistry) from the University of Connecticut in 1986. Dr. Beecher served as Director for Drug Development with Ancile
Pharmaceuticals and Associate Director for Natural Products Drug Discovery for Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). Before joining BMS, Chris was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chris is a metabolomic platform development pioneer. In 2001, Dr. Beecher was appointed as the Director of Metabolic Profiling at Paradigm Genetics, Inc. where he was responsible for building the world's first parallel metabolomics platform. He later became the sole technical founder of Metabolon, Inc. where he continued to build metabolomics platforms and work in discovery. Following the discovery of the metabolite biomarker sarcosine in prostate cancer, Dr. Beecher became a Professor in the Department of Pathology, at the Medical School of the University of Michigan and assumed the position of Director of the UM Metabolomics Facility. Chris is currently Chief Scientific Officer for IROA Technologies where he oversees the continuous development of next generation metabolomics, data generation and data interpretation platforms.
