Award-winning scientist who was struggling to make Theranos blood test machines work committed suicide amid fears Silicon Valley firm's 32-year old CEO was about to fire him, claims his wife

Award-winning scientist who was struggling to make Theranos blood test machines work
Cambridge graduate Ian Gibbons was head scientist at the Silicon Valley bio-tech firm
when he started finding issues with the technology which made Elizabeth Holmes the richest self-made women in America, with a net worth of $4.5billion in 2015. According to an investigation by Vanity Fair , Mr Gibbons was having problems getting Holmes' methods to work, but was pressured to back the company during a lawsuit and throughout its massive expansion. His wife Rochelle said he killed himself ours after Holmes had called him in for a meeting. He had recently been diagnosed with cancer and feared he was about to lose his job. But Theranos maintain that Gibbons was hardly in their office because of his health problems and had told people connected to the company their products were ready for the commercial market. Holmes' fortune plummeted to zero overnight amid allegations the blood-testing company she founded in 2003 produced inaccurate tests and was being investigated by federal agencies, including the FBI.