Jay Hetzel has become chairman at Uniquest, bringing more than 20 years of life science and commercialisation expertise accrued at the Csiro research agency.
University of Queensland has chosen Jay Hetzel (pictured) to succeed the retiring Mary Boydell as board chairperson of its commercialisation arm UniQuest.
Hetzel was selected on the basis of his expertise in life sciences research, product development and commercialisation.
He had previously spent more than 20 years with the Australian government-backed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Csiro).
While at Csiro, Hetzel covered animal genetics and genomics research, building on his 1998 founding of livestock genomics technology…
