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Day Zero Diagnostics: Amy Mathers, Rob Crisp

Aug 25, 2022

Day Zero Diagnostics has added Amy Mathers and Rob Crisp to its advisory board. Mathers is the associate director of clinical microbiology and the medical director of antimicrobial stewardship at The University of Virginia Medical School's department of pathology. Crisp is currently VP of research and development at Molecular Designs and was previously senior VP and president of microbiology R&D at BioFire Diagnostics and BioMerieux.

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