Dr. Kirk Beebe is the Chief Scientific Officer at GeneCentric. Prior to joining GeneCentric, Dr. Beebe headed the translational science group that focused on pharmaceutical partnerships at Metabolon. He and his colleagues pioneered the analysis of large scale datasets to generate insights that enabled Pharmaceutical R&D and precision medicine. His team’s work led to a wide range of advances such as deeper understanding of drug resistance mechanisms and discovery of pathways that drive prognosis and response. Prior to Metabolon, he was a scientist at Talecris Biotherapeutics (formerly Bayer HealthCare), contributing to development of new pipeline products.  His passion for translational research and technology innovation was honed as a post-doctoral scientist and senior research associate at the Scripps Research Institute where he uncovered mechanistic links between genetic code fidelity and disease and, prior to that, as a PhD student at Ohio State University where he pioneered an innovative chemical biology approach to finding ligands for signaling proteins (an approach that paved the way for finding leads for untargetable proteins such as KRas). Dr. Beebe’s work has been published in top journals including Science and Nature and reprinted as a classic to celebrate the century of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.