Steve Casey is responsible for developing, directing and coordinating all biotechnology growth and development activities surrounding the Biotechnology Center's five regional offices.
Casey was the former Biotechnology Center Business Development Director where he helped to create the Technology Evaluation and Acceleration Model loan program and the Business Acceleration and Technology Outlicensing Network (BATON) which supports, streamlines and provides business-related inception activities for new companies emanating from North Carolina research organizations.
Background
Casey is the founder and former chief operating officer of Expression Analysis, a Durham company that provides gene expression, genotyping and re-sequencing services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Before that he was a manager with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke University. Previously he was discharged with honors from the U.S. Air Force after two decades of service. Casey has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Wayland Baptist University and received an MBA from Elon College in 2001.