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Dr. Wallen has been Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Company, and has been leading the Pharmaceutical Products business since September 2003. Before joining the Company, Dr. Wallen was Senior Vice President and Head of the Office of Technology for the Diagnostics Division of Bayer Healthcare. In his ten years with Bayer, Dr. Wallen held various senior scientific and leadership positions, including Head of Research and Development for Bayer's laboratory testing and Head of Research for the nucleic acid diagnostics segment.
Dr. Wallen earned his bachelor's degree in zoology and his master's in microbiology from Michigan State University and his doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 scientific papers and articles covering topics in immunology, virology, oncology and detection methodologies. | 