World-leading expert on infectious disease prevention and control toenhance medical value of bioMrieuxs solutions

Marcy l'toile, France (PRWEB) November 01, 2012

A world-renowned medical clinician, researcher and microbiologist, Mark Miller is certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Clinical Microbiology. He is also a Professor of Medicine at McGill University. Before joining bioMrieux, for over 15 years, he was the Head of Infectious Diseases, the Chair of Infection Prevention and Control, as well as the Chief of Clinical Microbiology at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of over 120 scientific publications, over 140 abstracts and has conceived or conducted more than 60 large-scale research projects in the complex field of infectious diseases.

Dr. Miller is regarded to be one of the worlds leading experts on the bacterium, Clostridium difficile, a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections.

Looking to the future, the added medical value and the ratio between the cost and clinical benefit of diagnostics will become central issues, said Jean-Luc Belingard, bioMrieux Chief Executive Officer. I feel very fortunate to welcome Dr. Mark Miller to our team. As the world leader in microbiology, it is of paramount importance to have one of the foremost experts in our field to reinforce the medical scope of our solutions and to help guide our technological and scientific choices.

Reinforcing the added medical value of its diagnostic solutions is one of bioMrieuxs two main product development goals, along with improving laboratory efficiency. In particular, in clinical microbiology, bioMrieux recently launched its FMLA (Full Microbiology Lab Automation) range, comprising solutions to help labs focus on providing results that are more clinically relevant faster. In 2013, bioMrieux will launch two customer-centric, innovative platforms to expand this offer: a new blood culture system and an incubator integrating imaging technologies. In the immunoassays field, where bioMrieux focuses on high medical value tests, Mark Millers contribution will also be of critical importance for selecting novel biomarkers.

Mark Miller will be based at the bioMrieux headquarters, in France. He will continue to direct an Infectious Diseases Research Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, with an emphasis on studying healthcare-associated infections, and will also remain a professor at McGill University.

Dr. Miller will enhance a network of leading international clinicians and biologists and expand bioMrieuxs clinical studies and partnerships with universities and hospitals. He joins bioMrieuxs team of scientific experts, including Alex van Belkum, Ph.D., Ph.D., bioMrieuxs Corporate Vice President R&D Microbiology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and Wm. Michael Dunne, Jr., Ph.D., bioMrieuxs Executive Director, R&D Microbiology North America, Adjunct Professor at Washington University School of Medicine and Duke University School of Medicine, and senior editor of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

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