It’s lucky for Madison, Wisconsin’s bioinformatics and genotyping firm EraGen Biosciences that new president and CEO Irene Hrusovsky, a self-proclaimed health nut who’s always been interested in genetics, has a thing for commercialization. A pediatrician by training, she got her industry start at Abbott Laboratories almost 25 years ago. The mentality there was to commercialize new technology or a new business as soon as possible: “When it looked feasible, they would fund a venture,” she says.