Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing @ DropWorks .
 
Dale Levitzke joined NanoString from Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) where he was Senior Director and Global Sales Manager for the company's PCR division, created following Illumina's acquisition of Helixis in 2010. In that role, he led all aspects of global sales for Illumina's quantitative real-time PCR product line and established a global distribution network with 38 distributors covering 126 countries.

Previously, he headed global sales for Helixis, Inc., a developer of advanced nucleic acid analysis tools for research and applied applications. Dale also held the position of General Manager of Corbett Robotics Inc., establishing the direct sales, administrative and service office for Corbett Life Sciences in the United States.

Dropworks has developed FluxPCR™, an innovative technology for highly-sensitive digital quantitative polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) that improves quantitative performance, reduces cost, and simplifies and accelerates sample workflow.  In FluxPCR™, samples flow in single-file through the instrument, where they are automatically moved through the process steps of dPCR.  Using Dropworks’ proprietary process oils and emulsion stabilization reagents, aqueous samples and dPCR partitions are rigidly isolated from the system and each other, preventing sample cross-contamination and greatly reducing consumable requirements.  Their partitions are our consumables, non-interacting, self-contained chambers in which we can execute a wide array of biochemical assays.

Dale will be presenting on:
FluxPCR™: an Introduction to a new digital quantitative polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) Technology.