Gibbons spentFor 30 years, workingIan Gibbons worked on diagnostic and therapeutic products at various technology companies, including Biotrack Laboratories.<ref name=VF/><ref name=skewed/><ref name=au>{{citation|work=[[News.com.au]]|access-date=25 February 2023|url=https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/disgraced-ceos-heartless-response-to-suicide/news-story/69fa4357d238c59126b75d439be55691|title=Disgraced CEO's heartless response to suicide - When the disgraced founder of a blood testing company found out her chief scientist had committed suicide, she did the unthinkable.|date=9 September 2016}}</ref> Additionally,Gibbons worked inIn the 1980s, he worked at a biotechnology firm called [[Syva Company]], where he produced groundbreaking research on [[Immunoassay|immunoassaysimmunoassay]]s.{{sfn|Carreyrou|2020|p=145}}<ref>{{citation|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/4501692|access-date=5 March 2023|title=Charge effects in enzyme immunoassays|date=1 May 1982|work=[[Justia]]|page=Patent No. 4501692; Application Number: 6/259,629|first1=Ian|last1=Gibbons|first2=Gerald L.|last2=Rowley|first3=Edwin F.|last3=Ullman}}</ref> ThroughoutDuring his career, Gibbons was named on almost 200 patents.<ref name=dunn/> AtWhile working at [[Biotrack Laboratories]], he developed blood assay technologies and held 19 patents infor the scientific techniques he created while at the company.{{sfn|Carreyrou|2020|p=140}}<ref name=skewed/> At Biotrack, Gibbons worked at the company with [[Channing Robertson]], who later recommended him as the first experienced scientist to be hired by Theranos.<ref name=VF/><ref name=dunn>{{citation|access-date=25 February 2023|url=https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/theranos-employees-wife-people-elizabeth-holmes-jail-dropout/story?id=60707423|title=Ex-Theranos employee's wife: People like Elizabeth Holmes 'should be in jail': 'The Dropout' ep 2|work=[[ABC News]]|date=12 March 2019|first1=Taylor |last1=Dunn|first2=Victoria|last2= Thompson|first3=Rebecca|last3= Jarvis}}</ref><ref name=martin31/> At Biotrack, Gibbons, Robertson, and others invented and patented a mechanism at Biotrack to dilute and mix liquid samples, abilities whichthat would become key in Theranos' processes.{{sfn|Carreyrou|2020|pp=140-141}}<ref>{{Cite web| last1 = Gibbons| first1 = Ian| last2 = Hillman| first2 = Robert S.| last3 = Robertson| first3 = Channing R.| last4 = Allen| first4 = Jimmy D.| title = United States Patent: 4946795 - Apparatus and method for dilution and mixing of liquid samples| access-date = July 23, 2018| date = August 7, 1990| website=US Patent and Trademark Office|url = http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4946795.PN.&OS=PN/4946795&RS=PN/4946795}}</ref><ref name=martin31/>
