BioFire Defense LLC (http://www.biofiredefense.com) recently announced that Christina Flowers was appointed as the new U.S. Sales Account Manager to help expand their portfolio in the military, public health, first responder, and private specialty markets throughout the United States. In this role, she will be responsible for managing all government commercial sales for biological defense and biosurveillance efforts, and assisting members of the defense community in the field with their biothreat preparedness and business development needs. “BioFire Defense has always been the industry leader in innovation and forward-thinking within these sectors, so I am privileged to be a part of this team. Having even a small role in ensuring the safety and security of our nation’s warfighters, first responders, and private citizens is such an incredible honor.”

For the past seven years, Christina served as a Sales Manager in both the biosurveillance and clinical diagnostics market place with BioFire Diagnostics. Here, she supplied solutions to field forces and mobile laboratories for biothreat detection, and then with moderate-to-high complexity hospital laboratories for syndromic respiratory disease, sepsis, and gastrointestinal infection diagnosis. She was also instrumental in BioFire Defense’s clinical roll-out of the BT-E, Emergency Use Authorized Ebola test last fall, used for emergency in-vitro diagnosis of the Ebola Zaire virus.* Prior to her time with BioFire, she was an Emergency Planner for the Virginia State Department of Health, and provided technical laboratory assistance during the 2002 Anthrax attacks. She also possesses a wealth of experience in grants management, and has both organized and participated in a number of emergency preparedness and response efforts and exercises across the country. Christina has a Masters of Public Health (MPH) advanced degree, as well as a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) degree in Biology. Other professional certifications have included tropical and emerging vector-borne infectious diseases, and Level-1 Hazmat Instructor. She is currently based out of Virginia Beach, VA.

Matt Scullion, VP of Sales and Marketing said: “We are very fortunate and excited to have Christina as part of the BioFire Defense team.  Her years of experience will help grow BioFire’s technology adoption throughout the U.S. defense and first responder markets, as well as serve as a tremendous resource to our customers.”  

About BioFire Defense, LLC BioFire Defense, LLC, formerlyaho Technology, Inc., is a subsidiary of bioMerieux Inc. (Durham, NC) and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. BioFire Defense is focused on technology innovation and product development of pathogenentification and the life science applications. It has developed and provided products for defense, food testing, and the life sciences since 1990. BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, its sister subsidiary, continues delivering and expanding the clinical applications of the FilmArray System to hospital-based clinical laboratories across the world. 

For more information, Christina may be reached directly at: Christina M. Flowers, MPH U.S. Sales Account Manager BioFire Defense 801-244-3087 Christina.Flowers@biofiredefense.com

* The commercial BioThreat-E testTM is currently available to high and moderate complexity clinical laboratories in the U.S. It is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of the emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection of Ebola Zaire virus, unless the authorization is terminated or revoked sooner.