Senior Director of Bioinformatics, Molecular Infectious Disease
Quest Diagnostics
Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States
Ron Kagan PhD, MB(ASCP)CM, received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. He joined Quest Diagnostics in 1996 as a research scientist. Dr. Kagan has been the Director of Bioinformatics for Molecular Infectious Disease at Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute in San Juan Capistrano, California since 2007 and a senior director since 2014. His areas of expertise include viral sequencing assays for HIV, HBV and HCV drug resistance and genotyping, and more recently, SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing and targeted metagenomic sequencing. He has built and deployed bioinformatics solutions and workflows for Sanger sequencing and next generation sequencing (NGS) for infectious disease applications in his laboratory. Dr Kagan has authored or coathored over 40 journal articles and 50 meeting abstracts and posters. His current areas of interest include NGS applications in infectious disease, bioinformatic pipelines, metagenomics, emerging infectious disease surveillance and molecular infectious disease assay automation.
Disclosure information not submitted.
DNA Sequence Analysis Overview for Clinical Microbiology Applications
Thursday, November 16, 2023
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM MST