Dr. Nuwaysir is a Senior Vice President. As one of the initial company employees, he has served
in both research and managerial positions and played a critical
role in the development of the NimbleGen technology platform.
He has seven patents pending or issued through these efforts.
Prior to NimbleGen, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) within
the National Institutes of Health, where he helped coordinate
the development of the NIEHS Microarray Core Facility and developed
ToxChip, a microarray used by the NIEHS and the National Center
for Toxicogenomics in their human toxicology studies. He has also
held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill, a research position at EI DuPont de Nemours.
He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology with a focus in
Oncology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the McArdle
Laboratory for Cancer Research.
