Joseph Beechem Multi-Omics Inaugural Conference 2022

Joseph Beechem

JOSEPH M. BEECHEM (PHD) CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER AND SVP OF R&D NANOSTRING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (SEATTLE, WA) Joe Beechem joined NanoString in 2012 as the Senior Vice President of Research and Development and is now also the company’s Chief Scientific Officer. He is co-inventor of both the GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP), which affords whole transcriptomic quantitative profiling of RNA and 100’s of plex protein from tissue sections as well as the next-generation CosMx® Spatial Molecular Imager platform (H2 2022 launch) with highest-plex multi-omic imaging with single-cell and sub-cellular capability. Dr. Beechem leads a multidisciplinary team at NanoString based in Seattle, WA where he and his colleagues develop innovative technology platforms and assays based on the company’s nucleic-acid based optical and photo-active barcodes for multiplexed quantification of biomolecules. Joe’s R&D Team now focus 100% on technology development for unlimited-plex multi-omic spatial biology applications. Dr. Beechem is an author on over 150 peer-reviewed papers in diverse fields: biomathematics, physics, chemistry, physiology, spectroscopy, diagnostics, medicine and biology. He received a doctorate in Biophysics from The Johns Hopkins University, Post-Doc in Physics (UIUC) and started his career (11 years) as a tenured faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, along with a decade-long career at Life Technologies as CSO and building Next-Generation Sequencers.