Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Primary Organization Prominex
Gender Male
Dr. Becker is the inventor of Prominex’s novel CHASE (Coupled Hairpin Amplification System) technology. Prior to Prominex, Dr. Becker served as the Vice President of R&D and Chief Scientific Officer of Roka Bioscience, Inc., a molecular diagnostic company focused on food safety, from 2009 until 2017. Dr. Becker previously served in a variety of
senior leadership positions in research for 16 years at Gen-Probe (now Hologic) where he invented many of their key core technologies that are today covered by more than 85 issued patents. Prior to joining Gen-Probe, Dr. Becker was an Associate Professor in the Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Texas A&M University, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and an Anna Fuller Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with James C. Wang. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech under Peter B. Dervan and has published over 175 papers and patents in the field of nucleic acids.
