“We are very pleased to add Eric’s scientific expertise and leadership to our already strong senior management team,” said Carl Hull, Gen-Probe’s president and chief operating officer. “We believe Eric will play an integral role in helping our R&D team drive short-, medium- and long-term product sales growth for the Company.”
Lai earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology and microbiology from Columbia University, M. Phil. and M.A. degrees from the department of pharmacology at Columbia, and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.