Dr. Curtis Payne

Dr. Curtis’ role is to oversee all testing that Bell offers to our clients while directly working with the QC team to ensure products are within specifications and of high quality. He also implements new testing methods and instrumentation as part of our lab services.

Dr. Curtis has a Doctorate Degree in Physical Organic Chemistry from University of Minnesota Twin-Cities. He has broad analytical instrumentation experience with four publications in peer review journals. He received a Bachelors in Biochemistry from Saint Cloud State University and completed the synthesis of novel chemotherapeutic agent, which was also published in a peer reviewed journal.

Dr. Curtis previously oversaw a synthetic chemistry team as a natural product isolation manager, which synthesized and/or extracted compounds for R&D labs across the world.

He is still chasing the dream of playing in the NHL.