Halteres Associates
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Katherine M. Tynan, PhD – Principal

Katherine M. Tynan  

Dr. Tynan has over 15 years of experience and is a seasoned biotechnology entrepreneur with a focus on business development, startup entrepreneurship, fundraising and strategic business planning for diagnostic companies. She also has considerable background in financial analysis, operations, product development and commercialization of new technologies, and she works with diagnostic companies guiding them through product development choices, market analysis, funding and a diversity of business development transactions. Previously, Dr. Tynan was at Vitra Bioscience, a venture-backed biotechnology tools company, where she managed a broad range of functional areas including marketing, business development, operations, finance, legal and IP and participated in raising over $15M in capital. She worked at Applied Biosystems in strategic planning (including Celera and Celera Diagnostics), business development, research management and product development roles. Dr. Tynan also directed the Molecular Genetics Department for Oncogenetics and Datagenetics, a start-up esoteric diagnostic services company (acquired by Impath). Board-certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics with post-doctoral studies on Marfan Syndrome at Stanford University and the Human Genome Project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both in California, she holds a PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Calgary, Canada and a BS (Honors) in Microbiology from University College Galway, Ireland.

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