Dr. Schaudies background includes positions in line management for a Fortune 300 company and program management for the US military. Prior to founding GenArraytion, Dr. Schaudies managed the Biological and Chemical Defense Division at SAIC. He is an internationally recognized expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology, and has served on ten National Research Council committees. Dr. Schaudies was the science advisor to the Incident Commander and the EPA On-Scene Coordinator during the 2001 anthrax incident in Washington, DC. He has served on numerous advisory committees for government agencies including DARPA and DOE and has been chairman of numerous technology conferences, including several Gordon Research Conferences. Dr. Schaudies spent thirteen years as an active duty Army officer and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the USAR. While on active duty, Dr. Schaudies was the Program Manager for Biological and Chemical Defense Research, a Senior Researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research and the Chief of the General Support Laboratory in the Department of Clinical Investigation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Schaudies earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Temple School of Medicine and was a visiting scientist in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute. He received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Wake Forest.