People: Helicos BioSciences Corporation (HLCS.O)

Dr. J. William Efcavitch joined Helicos BioSciences Corp. in October 2004 and serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Efcavitch served as Senior Vice President of Product Research and Development from October 2004 through May 2008. Previously, he spent 23 years at Applied Biosystems, a division of Applera Corporation, most recently as Director of the Synthesis and Arrays Business Unit which commercialized several products, including an expression array system. At Applied Biosystems, Dr. Efcavitch led the successful development and commercialization of Applied Biosystems' DNA sequencing instruments, reagents, consumables and software products, including the sequencer that became the standard used for the Human Genome Project. Dr. Efcavitch is a co-author of twelve research publications and is named as an inventor on fifteen patents. He earned his PhD in Biochemistry from Ohio University.