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Commercialization About Contact Links Home	Heartland Biotech Madison,Wisconsin ,USA Phone: 608-698-4013 Email: tom.strader@heartlandbiotech.com Tom Strader, President and founder of Heartland Biotech, has more than 15 years of experience in business development, product development and commercialization of biotechnology products. He has: world-class formal education in biotechnology from University of Wisconsin-Madison researched, compiled and presented data leading to over US$2M in fund-raising designed, developed and implemented immunoassays all the way from Ab production in goat to bench implementation directed dozens of project teams propose ideas, justify expenditures and develop profitable life science products increased revenue and profitability at every job held researched and written commercialization plan for Phase 2 SBIR grant which was awarded $1.2M in 2006 increased flow cytometry reagent product line revenue 500% after 9 month campaign been elected President of Midwest LRIG Background: After graduating from the of University of Missouri with a BS in Biology and Chemistry minor, Tom started his career as a protein chemist and mass spectoscopist in R&D at LabOne (now Quest Diagnostics) in Kansas City before moving to Madison , WI to work for Gilson in 1997. At Gilson, Tom directed a team of scientists and engineers from Pfizer-Groton and Thermo-Finnigan to develop the world's first commercially available mass-based LC/MS autopurification system, the NEBULA Autopurification System, before taking to the field and tripling sales in his territory the first year as a sales consultant. Tom then spearheaded efforts at Promega to bring automated DNA and RNA purification into the new century as Genomics Product Manger. Certifications: FAA certified private pilot PADI certified scuba diver ASA certified sailor Eagle Scout Funding "Certifications": Technology Assistance Grant program: http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/act255/BD-Act255-technologyassistancegrants.html Value Added Producer Grant program: http://aic.uwex.edu/programs/VAPG.cfm Affiliations: Midwest LRIG Inc., President American Association of Mass Spectrometry American Chemical Society Mustang Club of America Badgerland Mustang Club . Phone: 608-698-4013 Email

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Heartland Biotech
Madison,Wisconsin ,USA
Phone: 608-698-4013
Email: tom.strader@heartlandbiotech.com

Tom Strader, President and founder of Heartland Biotech, has more than 15 years of experience in business development, product development and commercialization of biotechnology products.

He has:

world-class formal education in biotechnology from University of Wisconsin-Madison
researched, compiled and presented data leading to over US$2M in fund-raising
designed, developed and implemented immunoassays all the way from Ab production in goat to bench implementation
directed dozens of project teams propose ideas, justify expenditures and develop profitable life science products
increased revenue and profitability at every job held
researched and written commercialization plan for Phase 2 SBIR grant which was awarded $1.2M in 2006
increased flow cytometry reagent product line revenue 500% after 9 month campaign
been elected President of Midwest LRIG

Background:

After graduating from the of University of Missouri with a BS in Biology and Chemistry minor, Tom started his career as a protein chemist and mass spectoscopist in R&D at LabOne (now Quest Diagnostics) in Kansas City before moving to Madison , WI to work for Gilson in 1997. At Gilson, Tom directed a team of scientists and engineers from Pfizer-Groton and Thermo-Finnigan to develop the world's first commercially available mass-based LC/MS autopurification system, the NEBULA Autopurification System, before taking to the field and tripling sales in his territory the first year as a sales consultant. Tom then spearheaded efforts at Promega to bring automated DNA and RNA purification into the new century as Genomics Product Manger.

Certifications:
FAA certified private pilot
PADI certified scuba diver
ASA certified sailor
Eagle Scout

Funding "Certifications":
Technology Assistance Grant program:
http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/act255/BD-Act255-technologyassistancegrants.html
Value Added Producer Grant program:
http://aic.uwex.edu/programs/VAPG.cfm

Affiliations:
Midwest LRIG Inc., President
American Association of Mass Spectrometry
American Chemical Society
Mustang Club of America
Badgerland Mustang Club

Phone: 608-698-4013

FAA certified pilot