Svilen Tzonev has been named head of informatics at Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif.
He was formerly at Illumina, where he was the senior director of software, bioinformatics and IT and helped to develop and commercialize the Genome Analyzer system. Prior to that post, he was director of software and informatics at GE Healthcare and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, where he led development of sequencing, genotyping, gene expression, and cellular screening systems and applications.
More details of Dr. Tzonev’s credentials are in the GenomeWeb brief.