Dr. Joshua Delaney
Northcote,VIC
Summary
Previously Director of Chemistry at 10x Genomics; joined 10X as employee #48 and experienced company growth to over 1200 culminating in becoming Director. Led R&D efforts at all stages of product development from early stage discovery and feasibility through to development, transfer to production and lifecycle management. Passionate about development of reagents and processes for technologies with real world impact and so have worked at the interface between chemistry, biology and microfluidics to develop assays and reagents across all platforms essential for an understanding of human health. An experienced and passionate leader who fosters talent and cross-functional collaboration having previously had a reporting structure of over 20 scientists covering a wide range of disciplines and experience levels.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Chemistry
10x Genomics
05.2021 - 02.2024
- Drive R&D efforts with a focus on enabling new technologies and applications through the innovation of core reagents and processes
- Oversee the manufacture, scale up and continuous improvement of reagents and processes
- Interface with multidisciplinary teams to execute high impact project plans
- Lead the development of novel chemistries or reagents and their transfer to manufacturing
- Contribute to core teams as a SME for the development and support of commercial products and manufacturing processes
- Lead root cause investigations and stabilization efforts of a range of manufacturing processes
- Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
Staff Scientist
10x Genomics
10.2019 - 05.2021
- Core team lead of R&D projects focusing on the development of novel reagents to enable new capabilities across the 10x product portfolio
- Interfaced with operations to identify and execute efforts to reduce COGs, scale up processes and improve robustness
- Designed laboratory spaces for both manufacturing and R&D purposes
- Manager and mentor to junior scientists across multiple disciplines
Scientist
10x Genomics
07.2014 - 10.2019
- Design, synthesis and scale up of custom regents for use in 10x Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) products
- Listed as inventor on over 12 patent grants and applications
- Synthesis and characterization of perflourinated targets
- Interface with operations during the transfer, scale up and continuous improvement of in-house developed parts and processes
- Develop and implement quality control measures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of experimental results and manufactured goods.
- Designed experiments using appropriate controls and variables, resulting in valid conclusions being drawn from collected data.
Education
Ph.D. - Organic Chemistry
Deakin University
Geelong09-2013
Bachelor of Forensic Science, Honours -
Deakin University
Geelong, VIC09-2009
Skills
- Project leadership
- Team growth, management and cultivation of talent
- Interfacing with senior leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Synthetic and analytical chemistry
- Surface functionalization and characterization
- Polymer and hydrogel design, synthesis and characterization
- Formulation development and scale up
- Scale up and stabilization of manufacturing process or reactions
- Drafting and maintaining manufacturing documents (SOPs, QCM, BRs, NCRs etc)
- Statistical analysis using software packages such as JMP, excel
Timeline
Director of Chemistry
10x Genomics
05.2021 - 02.2024
Staff Scientist
10x Genomics
10.2019 - 05.2021
Scientist
10x Genomics
07.2014 - 10.2019
Ph.D. - Organic Chemistry
Deakin University
Bachelor of Forensic Science, Honours -
Deakin University
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