Leadership Team

Daniel H. Farkas, PhD, HCLD, FACB

Laboratory Director, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine

Dr. Farkas is the Laboratory Director at the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine in Grand Rapids, MI, and VP of Clinical Diagnostics at Sequenom, Inc. Dr. Farkas has established three other hospital-based molecular diagnostics laboratories in his 20+ year career. These include Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ; William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI; and The Methodist Hospital in Houston. Dr. Farkas is currently Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. He has also held faculty positions at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, Baylor College of Medicine and William Beaumont Hospital.

Dr. Farkas is an internationally respected leader in the field of molecular diagnostics and was selected by his peers as the 2007 recipient of the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Leadership Award; he was AMP’s President in 2003. He has been a member of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry since 1990 and was a member of its Board of Directors.

Dr. Farkas has served on three College of American Pathologists Committees, notably for nine years on the Molecular Pathology Resource Committee. Dr. Farkas was the first professional certified by the American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB) in Molecular Diagnostics (1996) and served on ABB’s board for six years. Dr. Farkas served as a member of and consultant to the FDA Clinical and Molecular Genetics Devices Panel. Dr. Farkas has lectured internationally and published widely on molecular diagnostics, including his latest book in 2008: "DNA From A to Z and Back Again."

Juan-Sebastian Saldivar, MD, FACMG

Laboratory Director, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, CA

Dr. Saldivar is the Laboratory Director at the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine in San Diego, CA. Before that, he was Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Molecular Diagnostics in the department of Pathology at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA.

Dr. Saldivar earned his Medical Degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX, where he remained to do his residency in Family Medicine. He completed fellowships in Medical Genetics and Clinical Molecular Genetics at the Harvard/Partners Center for Human Genetics and Genomics in Boston, MA, and is board certified in both Clinical Molecular Genetics and Molecular Genetic Pathology by the American Board of Medical Genetics and the American Board of Pathology.

Dr. Saldivar is a member of the Association for Molecular Pathology, (AMP), the American Society of Human Genetics, and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.

He has served as an inspector for the College of American Pathologists, and has contributed as an AMP expert panel member, developing molecular diagnostic guidelines.

Dr. Saldivar has lectured internationally and published several papers on molecular diagnostics.