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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Una Ryan takes CEO role at Diagnostics for All
By Mass High Tech staff
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After launching and leading wastewater treatment startup Waltham Technologies Inc., Una Ryan is taking on the president and CEO roles at Diagnostics For All Inc., effective January 4, 2010, she confirmed.
Diagnostics For All, the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition winner last year, develops cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries.
“It is exciting to be able to develop low-cost, easy to use diagnostics for the developing world and to think about new models for achieving the goals (non profit with a for profit component),” Ryan said via e-mail. “Long term I think it will be important to demonstrate simplicity and cost-effectiveness as drivers for health care.”
Ryan said she is not leaving Waltham Technlogies and instead will continue as chairman, relinquishing the CEO position when the company finds a replacement.
News of Ryan's move was first reported in the Boston Globe blog Innovation Economy.
At Waltham Technologies, Ryan has helped the company use blue-green algae to treat wastewater. An earlier report in June noted that the company, still in its earliest stages, has three employees, a round of friends-and-family funding under its belt and two pilot testers in its first target market, the beverage industry.
Ryan was named an MHT All-Star in 2004 when she was CEO of Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc., now named Celldex Therapeutics Inc.
Ryan, former chairwoman of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBC) industry group, serves on the boards of the MBC, the UMass High Technology Executive Council, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, as well as several other life sciences institutions and companies in the Bay State and around the country.
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