Advancing SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostics Through Standardization and Quantitation

Russell Garlick, PhD, is the Chief Scientific Officer at LGC SeraCare Life Sciences. Since 2012 he has been focusing on expanding the company’s technologies, R&D organization, and product development pipeline. Throughout his career he has worked on the development, regulatory approval, and launch of a variety of technologies and assays, including an HIV/AIDS patient management program, molecular genomics technologies, and HIV drug discovery systems. Prior to joining LGC Clinical Diagnostics, Dr. Garlick was co-founder of Life Sciences Group and served as CEO and CTO of Protein Forest, Inc. He has also held executive R&D positions at PerkinElmer Life Sciences and DuPont NEN Life Sciences.

Marc Salit, PhD, is the founding director of The Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology (JIMB) at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His scientific work is focused on bringing the principles of metrology – systematic measurement science, measurement tool, and standards development – to biology. He brought his background in chemical and physical metrology to challenges in biology in 2003. This translation of metrology has led to innovation in genomic and synthetic biology, with most of that work conducted at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he cofounded and operated consortia like the External RNA Controls Consortium and The Genome in a Bottle Consortium.