Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 5, 2000

Antonius Schuh – Sequenom Inc (sqnm)

Schuh, Antonius
Dr. Antonius Schuh is CEO at Trovagene, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company specializing in noninvasive diagnostic solutions based on cell-free DNA. The company has developed its precision cancer monitoring platform, which detects and quantifies circulating tumor DNA — ctDNA — in blood and urine to track the driver mutations of a patient’s tumor to monitor treatment response, and resistance to therapy. Dr. Schuh has been CEO of Trovagene since October 2011. He has held numerous executive positions at leading life science and molecular diagnostics companies, including Chairman of the board and CEO of Sorrento Therapeutics; CEO of AviaraDx, Inc., now bioTheranostics, Inc.; CEO of Arcturus Bioscience Inc.; and President and CEO of Sequenom, Inc. Dr. Schuh is also a director of DioGenix, Inc., and Gensignia, Inc., both privately held molecular diagnostics companies, and a managing partner of GSV LLC, a life sciences investment and advisory firm. He is a certified pharmacist and earned his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Bonn, Germany. Profile
TWST: Would you provide us with an overview of Sequenom, Inc.?

Dr. Schuh: Sequenom is what we call an industrial genomics company. That

means we are reducing genomics into formats and systems