Great Basin Scientific names new vice president of operations

Mr Rea will be responsible for creating the regulatory, manufacturing and quality control systems and staffing needed to take the company’s molecular diagnostic products through clinical trials and to market. He will also oversee the set up of the company’s manufacturing facilities in Longmont, Colorado.

Mr Rea brings to Great Basin Scientific more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing experience, of which eight years were spent managing a Good Manufacturing Practice facility for BioStar, a subunit of Inverness Medical Innovations, with revenues that exceeded $30 million during Mr Rea’s tenure.

Ryan Ashton, president and CEO of Great Basin Scientific, said: “We’re very excited to bring someone of Larry’s caliber on board with us at a time when his proven management skills will be highly valuable to our product development and eventual product launches.

“He is a veteran of the industry who has seen many products successfully through the manufacturing and regulatory process and his recent past experience at BioStar, manufacturing a chip-based rapid test, is similar to Great Basin’s chip-based molecular diagnostic system.”