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Leonard Klevan is a businessman and scientist in the fields of biochemistry and biotechnology. As of 2009 Klevan has assumed the position of president of the Human Identification Business of
Life Technologies Life Technologies Corporation was a biotech company founded in November 2008 through a US $6.7 billion merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc. The joint sales of the combined companies were about $3.5 billion; they had abou ...
(formerly
Applied Biosystems Applied Biosystems is one of various brands under the Life Technologies brand of Thermo Fisher Scientific corporation. The brand is focused on integrated systems for genetic analysis, which include computerized machines and the consumables used ...
Inc.) Prior to the merging of Applied Biosystems Inc. (ABI) with
Invitrogen Invitrogen is one of several brands under the Thermo Fisher Scientific corporation. The product line includes various subbrands of biotechnology products, such as machines and consumables for polymerase chain reaction, reverse transcription, ...
under the name of Life Technologies, Klevan acted as president of Applied Markets for ABI which produced and marketed reagent kits for forensic DNA, paternity testing and other forms of human identification as well as products for biosecurity, food/agriculture, and environmental applications.


Early life and education

Leonard Klevan was born in
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in 1951 to Julius and Shirly Klevan. He received a B.A. in chemistry from
Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university in Binghamton metropolitan area, Greater Binghamton, New York, United States. It is one of the four uni ...
and a
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in
physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mech ...
from
Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
in 1978. He went on to do postdoctoral research at
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
.


Career

After leaving Harvard, Klevan spent a short period of time as an adjunct professor at UCLA before moving to Maryland to work for Life Technologies Inc. (a predecessor to the Life Technologies Inc. he currently works for). In 1999 he left Life Technologies and moved to the San Francisco Bay area to become President and CEO of MiraiBio (a subsidiary of
Hitachi () is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company is active in various industries, including digital systems, power and renewable ener ...
Software Engineering). In 2005 Klevan moved to Metairie, Louisiana (a suburb of New Orleans) where he was CEO of Reliagene Technologies, a forensic testing and human identification company. ReliaGene, a privately held company founded by Dr. Sudhir Sinha in 1990 was expanding and hired Dr Klevan to grow the company further and provide corporate structure. Shortly after
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, Dr. Klevan returned to California as vice president of applied markets at ABI. In 2008 ABI merged with Invitrogen under the name Life Technologies Inc. He is currently president of the Human Identification Business of Life Technologies. Klevan frequently travels abroad to meet with foreign government agencies and officials to consult on issues of forensic science and DNA databasing.


Awards

In 2008 Klevan received the National Center For Victims of Crime Annual Achievement Award for his work with missing persons.


Publications

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References


External links

* http://www6.appliedbiosystems.com/about/bios/klevan.cfm {{DEFAULTSORT:Klevan, Leonard Living people American biochemists Year of birth missing (living people) Yale University alumni