Gregory M. Banik, Ph.D., joined the Informatics Division of Bio-Rad Laboratories as the Division General Manager in May, 1999. During Dr. Banik’s tenure at Bio-Rad, the Informatics Division won Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award for Best Spectroscopy Software in 2001, 2002, and 2003. More recently, the Division’s new KnowItAll ADME/Tox prediction software was awarded Frost & Sullivan’s ADME/Tox Informatics Product Differentiation Innovation Award in 2003.

Dr. Banik joined Bio-Rad from Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI, now Accelrys) in San Diego, where he was Director of Business Development. He joined MSI in January 1998 from UMI (now ProQuest), the business information subsidiary of Bell & Howell based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At UMI, Dr. Banik was Director of Marketing and Product Management for UMI's Corporate and International Division. Prior to UMI, Dr. Banik was New Product Manager, Chemical Information Products, at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began his professional career with Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago, Illinois, where he was Scientific Information Manager from 1990 to 1993.

Dr. Banik earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1990 and was a Lecturer in the University's chemistry department that same year. He received a Masters of Science in Chemistry from Northwestern in 1985 and a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and Computer Studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa in 1983. Since receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Banik was also enrolled in MBA programs at the University of Chicago and Temple University in Philadelphia.