David Mead
CEO and CoFounder
Varigen Biosciences Corp
USA
Biography
David Mead is CEO and CoFounder of Varigen Biosciences Corp and founder of Lucigen Corp. Dr. Mead earned a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois–Champaign/Urbana, and is co-author of fifty-five publications, co-inventor on ten patents, and the inventor of TA cloning. Dr. Mead has been involved with three major functional metagenomics projects looking for new polymerases from boiling hot spring viruses, new CAZymes from thermal habitats, and novel natural products from soil microbes.
Research Interest