Dr Trevor Hawkins, PhD
Board Biographies
Christopher M Abbott, AM FCA
Dr Nick Samaras, PhD
Phill Isaacs, MSc JP
Dr Trevor Hawkins, PhD
Robert J Birrell, CPA, BEc, M.Comm.
Angus R Hastie, M.Bus.
Dr Trevor Hawkins, PhD
Dr Trevor Hawkins is a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who has built a career in the healthcare industry over the past 20 years.
In business, Dr Hawkins has held several senior executive roles, as Chief Scientific Officer of Royal Philips Electronics focusing on healthcare, CEO of Philips Molecular Healthcare business unit, CEO of GE’s Molecular diagnostics business and President of Amersham’s Genomics business. He was also Chairman & CEO of ProGenTech, a privately held company based in Shanghai & San Francisco.
Dr Hawkins invented SPRI, Solid Phase Reversible Immobilization – the magnetic bead nucleic acid isolation method that was used extensively as the sample prep method for the Human Genome Project. The SPRI patent remains as one of the most important in the field of magnetic bead use for life sciences.
As a scientist, Dr Hawkins has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles on automation, genomics, human diseases and the genome project. As Director of the US DOE Human Genome Project, Joint Genome Institute his institute sequenced chromosomes 5,16 and 19 as well as going on to sequence the puffer fish and a multitude of microbial genomes.
Dr Hawkins is an Executive in Residence at Bay City Capital and serves as an advisor to several private and public healthcare companies.
(Scientific research) is... a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge, it should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure
Frederick Sanger