Dr. Jeffrey L. Mooney is commercial technology director for Corning Life Sciences (CLS). He has held this position since July of 2003. His primary responsibilities include developing and executing the business technology roadmap and intellectual property strategy for CLS.
Mooney joined Corning in June of 2000 as business technology manager in the Corning Microarray Technologies business, where he was responsible for assessing and developing product concepts and technologies for genomics, proteomics and advanced life sciences. He was appointed to program director, Advanced Life Sciences in April 2002.
Throughout his tenure at Corning, Mooney’s first-hand pharmaceutical industry experience and knowledge have contributed to a number of achievements. Key milestones under his leadership include:
- Developing the biophotonics roadmap
- Playing an instrumental role in the early commercialization efforts of the Epic® System
- Developing a cells solution strategy and roadmap, including the establishment of a key partnership with an industry leader
Prior to joining Corning, Mooney was the head of microarrays, department of molecular biology, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals R&D. His responsibilities included the design, development and implementation of platform technologies for high throughput gene expression analysis and full length gene cloning. Mooney was responsible for the successful in-house development of both nylon macroarrays and glass microarrays. Integrating these technologies into the drug discovery and validation process, and coordinating informatic systems was also a key initiative.
Mooney has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Gettysburg College and Villanova University respectively, and an M.A. Ph.D. in biology from Temple University. He has over 50 patents and 15 publications relating to genes essential for growth, microarrays, high throughput cDNA cloning and sequencing. Mooney is on the Scientific Advisory Board for NewYork MedTech and a member of the Analytical and Life Science Systems Association (ALSSA).