Dr. Ernst J. Schaefer, MD, joins Olaris Inc. as CLIA Laboratory Director

Olaris, Inc., a precision medicine company leveraging metabolomics and machine learning for the discovery and development of its myOLARIS™ diagnostics products, announced that Dr. Ernst Schaefer, a 30-year veteran in clinical diagnostics and an expert in developing monitoring tools to improve human health will be joining as CLIA Laboratory Director. Dr. Schaefer will continue in his role as laboratory director for Boston Heart Diagnostics, a company he co-founded in 2007, and at Clinical Enterprise, both in Framingham, MA.

Dr. Schaefer is an internationally recognized leader in the diagnostic world. He is the author of over 600 publications and has overseen the discovery, development, and commercialization of diagnostic products utilizing various biofluids, numerous analytical platforms and across different disease states, with a special focus on cardiovascular disease prevention. Dr. Schaefer has served as a distinguished professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, as well as laboratory director and senior scientist at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, in Boston, MA.

"Ernie has one of the top clinical diagnostic minds in the world" said Dr. Elizabeth O'Day, CEO and Founder of Olaris. "He has a strong reputation for consistently going above and beyond to bring novel technologies forward that can improve care. I can't think of a better partner to bring Olaris' innovative diagnostics to the patients that need them".

Dr. Schaefer has been recognized numerous times for his excellence in research and commitment to patient care. He received the JD Lane Award of the U.S. Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health, the Irvine H. Page Arteriosclerosis Research and Lyman Duff Awards from the American Heart Association, the Saul Horowitz Research and Merker Awards from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Oliver Smith Patient Care Awards from Tufts Medical Center, the E.V. McCollum Research Award of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, a Distinguished Faculty Award from Tufts University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

"I'm honored to be joining this world-class team. I couldn't be more excited to support Liz and the team as Olaris reaches this new milestone opening a CLIA lab to provide tests that transform care, first in transplant but with a growing pipeline in broader patient populations." Dr. Schaefer commented.