When   Thursday, October 15, 2009   Time   4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
Where   Technological Instit M345 2145 Sheridan Rd.   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Virginia Lorenzo   847-491-5635  
Group   McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
More Info   http://www.bme.northwestern.edu

Bryant M. Moore, Ph.D.

Bryant is an executive with 29 years of broad leadership experience in Research and Development.  He is currently Vice President Research and Technology in the New Therapies & Diagnostics section of Medtronic‘s Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management Business.  In this role, he is responsible for directing the divisions biotechnology programs and establishing focused relationships with academic institutions and start-ups for new emerging technology opportunities.  Prior to this role he has held positions of Vice President Product Development & Technology and Vice President Applied Technology & Central Engineering: respectively, all within Medtronic’s CRDM division.

Prior to Medtronic, Bryant was worldwide Vice President of Research and Development for Smith and Nephew Endoscopy located in Andover, Massachusetts.  There he was responsible for the development of minimally invasive surgery products.  These included optoelectronic, digital imaging, metallic and bioresorbable screw and anchor products for knee, shoulder, small joints and tissue resection products.  

Prior to Smith and Nephew he worked for Johnson and Johnson in Raritan, New Jersey where he held several key leadership positions within their clinical diagnostics business.  These positions were Vice President Research and Development, Director of Research and Hemostasis R&D, Manufacturing Manager for Immunoassay Products and Senior Scientist.  

Bryant began his industrial career in Wilmington, Delaware as a scientist for the DuPont Company in research and development.

Bryant holds a bachelors degree in Chemistry from North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

He serves on the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering for the Georgia Institute of Technology and as a Board Member of Life Science Alley, a lifescience trade association for the state of Minnesota.