About Us

Dr. Bruce A. Webb, co-founder of ParaTechs Corporation, helps set research objectives, obtain financing and optimize company performance. He is the co-inventor on the VE-BEVS patents. Dr. Webb is a professor emeritus in the Department of Entomology and was the Director of the Agricultural Biotechnology Program at the University of Kentucky from 2005-2009. His research focuses upon parasites and pathogens of insects that regulate insect development and immunity and he has served as Principal or co-Principal investigator on over $5 million in Federal Research grants. Prior to this he was with the Department of Entomology, Rutgers University and Texas A&M University. Dr. Webb received his PhD in Zoology from the University of Washington.

Dr. Fath-Goodin, co-founder of ParaTechs Corporation, has exceptional experience in plant and insect molecular biology and has received and managed several USDA:SBIR, NSF:SBIR, and NIH:SBIR grants as well as state funding. Dr. Fath-Goodin completed her PhD at the Friedrich Miescher Institute/University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland in Plant Biochemistry and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley before accepting a scientist’s position in the Webb Laboratory in the Entomology Department at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Fath-Goodin has been ParaTechs’ Chief Scientific Officer since 2004 and Chief Executive Officer since 2011. She is a member of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS).

Dr. Barbara Stone received a BS from the University of Illinois in 1988 in Microbiology.  She received her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from UCLA in 1994 studying microbial virulence factors.  Postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Kentucky also focused on bacterial/host cell interactions for pathogenic bacteria.  Dr. Stone joined the ParaTechs team in December 2009 and is currently a Senior Research Scientist and the Director of NSET Technology.  In addition to performing research and providing training, she is the PI for the NSET research program at ParaTechs and is the chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.  She is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS), KY Branch AALAS, and the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). Read Dr. Barbara Stone's NSET Workshop Bio.

Sarah earned her BS in Mathematics with a minor in Biology from Georgetown College in 2004. She began work at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in the DNA Core Facility. There, she completed pharmacogenetic studies from primer design to sequence analysis and processed customer samples for sequencing. Next, she worked at the University of Kentucky where she learned animal handling skills and many laboratory techniques such as immunohistochemistry, ELISA assays, RT-PCR, and microscope imaging. Sarah joined ParaTechs in 2016 as a Research Associate. Her animal handling experience combined with her eagerness to learn new laboratory techniques makes her a great fit at ParaTechs. She enjoys that in scientific research, no two days are the same.  She is a member of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS). In her down time, she enjoys knitting, spending time with friends, and teaching her cat new tricks.