In Part One of the Season 2 Finale of "Halteres Presents", Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Paul Davis, PhD, on the founding of the consumer diagnostics industry. In celebration of his upcoming retirement, Paul Davis reflects on his involvement in the development of Clearblue, the first one-step home pregnancy test, among many other accomplishments while at Unilever, as well as his next adventures as an entrepreneur, founding multiple life sciences companies, including Mologic with his son Mark. Paul shares much of what he learned along the way, including the challenges for creating tests for untrained users, and how opinions on rapid testing technologies have changed over time.
On Part Two, Paul will further elucidate the technology behind lateral flow assays - what works, what doesn't work, and where the field is going. Enjoy Part One, and stay tuned for Part Two.
Paul Davis has worked in immunology for over 45 years and has founded or co-founded eight bioscience businesses since 2002, with Mologic being the most prominent. As Mologic’s chief scientific officer, Paul led the Centre for Advanced Rapid Diagnostics (CARD), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Until 2002, he was as a senior scientist at Unilever Research leading applied immunology, and is one of the inventors of the lateral flow immunoassay.