Thomas Turi BS, PhD

Thomas Turi, Ph.D. is Vice President Companion Diagnostics for Covance Central Laboratory Services. He joined Covance in 2008 to establish the Biomarker Center of Excellence and was integral to the acquisition of the Covance Genomics Laboratory and the formation of Discovery and Translational Services. He is currently responsible for Covance’s Companion Diagnostics efforts. Prior to Covance, Dr. Turi spent fifteen years in the pharmaceutical industry, where he held a broad array of scientific leadership positions of increasing responsibility. Most recently he served as the Senior Director of Translational Biomarkers and Mechanistic Biology at Pfizer.

In addition to his current responsibilities, Dr. Turi has served on the Board of Trustees for The Life Sciences Foundation and is a member of the Global Health Research Roundtable of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for Caprion Proteomics and led several external partnerships including those with Rules Based Medicine, Celera, Incyte, and Affymetrix. He has also served on grant and program project review boards for NASA’s Section for Biotechnology and Tissue Engineering.

Dr. Turi received dual bachelors degrees in Biochemistry and Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his doctorate in Molecular Genetics from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral training at the Yale University School of Medicine applying molecular genetic techniques to investigate the mechanisms of protein transport.