Susan Hardin, PhD
Founder, President, and CEO
VisiGen Biotechnologies, Inc.

Educational path
· BS (Penn State)
· PhD (Indiana University Bloomington)
· Post-doc (Brandeis University)

Special training for nanotechnology
Most of my work is in Molecular Biology.

Why did you choose the field of nanotechnology?
I had an idea and the drive to bring it to completion. The idea was to engineer the molecules involved in DNA replication to act as direct molecular sensors of DNA sequence information in real-time (develop nano-sequencing machines). Because an interdisciplinary approach was required, I recruited top-notch scientists to research and develop the different project components. In 2000, we formed a company to develop the technology.

Q. What is it like to work in nanotechnology?
A. I love it. Cutting edge, interdisciplinary science and huge business potential, especially in personalized medicine. However, bio-defense, agriculture, biotechnology, and forensics will be large markets, too any situation where information about genome content is useful.