Advisors

MEET OUR ADVISORS

Our advisors use their broad and deep entrepreneurial expertise in the Life Sciences industry to help us better meet our customer needs.

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RICHARD M. EGLEN

Dr. Richard M. Eglen is a Board member and advisor, providing services to public and private organizations, as well as academic institutions, globally. He is currently working as a Senior Advisor to Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm that specializes in control investments in Specialty Industrials and Healthcare businesses.

Dr. Eglen has held several executive management positions in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and biotech industries, having worked in the Life Sciences industry for over 40 years. In 2019, he retired as Vice President and General Manager of Corning Life Sciences, a ~$1B operating division of Corning Inc. Prior to joining Corning in 2011, he was President of the Bio-discovery division at PerkinElmer.

Dr. Eglen has broad experience in the drug discovery industry, having worked as Executive Vice President for Research and Development at DiscoveRx Corp (now Eurofins Pharma Discovery Services), as well as Vice President of the Center for Biological Research at Roche Pharmaceuticals.

He has authored over 320 publications, book chapters, and patents, and serves on numerous industry, academic advisory and journal editorial boards. He has worked on key drug targets, such as GPCRs, kinases, and ion channels, as well as developing and commercializing assay and instrument technologies for cell and gene therapy, cell culture, high-throughput screening, cellular imaging, and biomarker detection.

He is a Fellow of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), as well as a previous Board member and past President of the Society.

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RICHARD LIN

Richard Lin is the founder of Explora BioLabs. Richard pioneered the concept of vivarium-as-a-service (now trademarked by Explora) in 2004, when he recognized that early stage biotech companies can accelerate their preclinical research by using high quality third party on-demand vivarium that comes with equipment, essential staff and regulatory support. After founding and growing the company organically to 7 facilities in San Diego and the Bay Area, Richard successfully navigated the acquisition of Explora by the Seabright Fund, a search fund, in mid-2018. 

 

Richard currently serves as an advisor to Explora, and as an investor at the San Diego Angel Conference, an angel investment fund and an accelerator program.

 

Richard is passionate about community building. He currently serves as the chairman of LaunchBio and leads the Biocom CRO committee. He is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Southern California Biotech Center, a training program based in Miramar College. 

 

Prior to founding Explora, Richard served in various senior research positions in several early stage biotech companies. He received his PhD in Zoology (cancer research) from UC Berkeley.

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