T2 Biosystems: Sean Zhang, Thomas Walsh, More

T2 Biosystems has formed a scientific advisory board, chaired by CMO Aparna Ahuja and including Sean Zhang, Thomas Walsh, Denise Uettwiller-Geiger, James Snyder, Michael Rybak, George Pankey, Minh-Hong Nguyen, and Randall Hayden.

Zhang is an associate professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the medical director of the medical mycology laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Walsh serves as the founding director of the Center for Innovative Therapeutics and Diagnostics and is an adjunct professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He was previously founding director of the Weill Cornell Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program.

Uettwiller-Geiger is a clinical chemist and clinical transformation liaison at Mather Hospital Northwell Health in New York.

Snyder serves as the director of the microbiology and infectious diseases molecular diagnostic laboratory at the University of Louisville Hospital. He is also a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Rybak is a professor of pharmacy in the department of pharmacy practice and director of the Anti-Infective Research Laboratory at Wayne State University. He is also an adjunct professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the school of medicine at Wayne State University and an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy.

Pankey serves as the director of infectious disease research at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans and as a clinical professor of medicine at Tulane University.

Nguyen is a professor of medicine and codirector of the Center for Healthcare Mycology at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Management Programs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. 

Hayden serves as the director of the division of clinical pathology and global pathology and director of clinical and molecular microbiology in the department of pathology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.