HORIBA Scientific has announced that Dr. Linda Kidder has joined the company as life sciences business development manager. Kidder will focus on developing and expanding the company’s suite of scientific instruments to meet the requirements of life science markets and applications. Kidder will collaborate with opinion leaders and scientists across a number of life science industries to provide market requirements to the product development teams at HORIBA. She will also collaborate with the other HORIBA segments, including the HORIBA Medical and HORIBA Process and Environmental segments, to leverage their expertise and enable key joint product developments. Before joining HORIBA, Kidder co-founded Spectral Dimensions, who provided spectroscopic imaging solutions to the pharmaceutical industry. It was acquired by Malvern Instruments, where she became global project manager of chemical imaging. She then joined their bioscience development initiative as senior scientist.