Jeffrey Price has accepted a faculty position at the Burnham Institute. Price joins the institute from the University of California, San Diego, where he was an associate research scientist in the department of bioengineering, and director of the Whitaker Foundation Confocal Microscopy Resource. Price said that he is also forming a new biotech startup company, Vala Sciences. He previously founded Q3DM, a startup that specialized in automated microscopy that was purchased by Beckman Coulter late last year.