Sean M. Higgins, Ph.D. is Vice President of Business Development for Plasmonix Inc. involved in commercialization of advanced assay technologies. Prior to joining Plasmonix he was Senior Field Marketing Scientist with Luminex Corporation providing customer support for assay application development and optimization. As Study Director and Senior Principal Investigator with Covance Laboratories he had primary responsibilities of directing assay development and sample analysis for pre-clinical and phased human clinical trials. Before joining Covance, Dr. Higgins performed a variety of duties developing key customer relationships for Meso Scale Discovery and managed several activities associated with assay development, verification and translation into manufacturing processes.
Dr. Higgins’ other previous experience focused on the creation of collaborative research programs involving incorporation of micro-/nano-fabricated components such as thin-film organic diodes and micro-fluidics in the development of miniaturized novel diagnostic, sensing and detection systems at Cornell University. Dr. Higgins earned a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the Department of Immunology at SUNY Upstate Medical University and, during this time, also served as a research consultant for Tm Technologies (later Tm Biosciences purchased by Luminex).
