George M. Church's Technology Transfer and Commercial Scientific Advisory Roles
The first date on each line indicates the year(s) of company founding. (In parens are the dates and focus of my involvement.)

Current Scientific Advisory Roles:
Genome Sequencing:
Azco Biotech Salem, NH 2003 (2009-present; sequencing system)
Danaher-Dover-Polonator Salem, NH 2007 (2007-present; sequencing instrument)
Complete Genomics Sunnyvale, CA 2006 (2006-present; Sequencing by Ligase service)
IntelligentBioSystems (IBS) Waltham, MA 2006 (2006-present; Sequencing by Polymerase on beads)
Halcyon Molecular Redwood City, CA 2009 (2009-present; Mbp read-length EM sequencing)
Pacific Biosciences Menlo Park, CA 2004 (2008-present; real-time single-molecule sequencing)
Helicos Biosciences Corp   Cambridge, MA 2004 (2003-present; Single-molecule DNA sequencing)
Lynx - Solexa - Illumina   Hayward, CA 1992; San Diego 1998 (2000-present; multiplex tags)
LightSpeed Genomics Sunnyvale CA 2007 (2007-present; high-speed DNA sequencing)
Ion Torrent Guilford, CT 2008 (2009-present; electronic sequencing)
Genizon Cantaloupe Quebec 2008 (2008-present; In situ sequencing)
Bionanomatrix Philadelphia, PA 2008 (2009-present; Fluorescent mapping)
Direct-to-Consumer Genomics:
Alacris Pharmaceuticals Berlin 2008 (2008-present; Cancer genomics & systems biology)
23andme Mountain View, CA 2006 (2006-present; personal genomics)
DNAdirect   San Francisco, CA 2004 (2006-present; DNA diagnostics)
Knome, Inc. Cambridge, MA 2007 (2007-present; Human Genome Sequencing)
Synthetic Biology, Biofuels, Stem Cells & Pharma:
JouleBio Cambridge, MA 2007 (2007-present; SolarFuels)
LS9   San Francisco, CA 2005 (2006-present; Biologically engineered fuels)
Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) Madison WI 2006 (2009-present; iPS stem cells)
Enzymatics Beverly, MA 2006 (2006-present; Large-scale, high quality enzymes)
Qteros (formerly SunEthanol) Amherst MA 2007 (2007-present; Biofuels)
Genomatica   San Diego CA 2001 (2001-present; microbial metabolic models)
PharmoRx   Wellesley , MA 2005 (2005-present; secure medication)
Sigma-Aldrich St. Louis 1934 (2009-present; chemistry, cells, Board of Directors)
NEB Beverly MA 1975 (2009-present; protein synthesis)
Merck KGaA (EMD) Darmstadt 1688 (2009-present; protein synthesis)

Non-profit groups:
PersonalGenomes.org Boston 2004 (2004-present; open-access genome & trait data)
BioWeatherMap.org Boston 2009 (2009-present; DIYbio)
X-prize.org Playa Vista CA 1996 (2005-present; sequencing & energy)

Financial and Legal Consulting:
Guidepoint Global (2009-present; Genomics technologies)
Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) (2007-present; Genomics technologies)
ACLU (2009; DNA diagnostics)
Supreme Court --Susman Godfrey LLP Amici Curiae Ebay & Half.com vs MercExchange LLC (2006; Intellectual Property)

Companies licensing Church lab patents or software:
Agilent 2000 (2001-present; nucleic acid nanopore sensors)
Oxford NanoPore Technologies Kidlington, UK 2005 (2008)
Affymetrix (Affymax)    Palo Alto, CA 1993 (1990-2003; Oligonucleotide arrays)
Agencourt   (now Beckman Coulter) Beverly, MA 2000 (2003-2006; Polony bead sequencing by ligation)
Applied Biosystems Foster City, CA 1981 (2003-2006; via Agencourt, polony bead sequencing by ligation)
Pyrosequencing (also Biotage - 454   Stockholm 2000 (2001-present; modified dNTPs for array sequencing)
Millipore Bedford,MA (1989-1990; multiplex sequencing)
Codon Devices Cambridge, MA 2005 (2005-2009; Constructive Biology)
Mosaic Technologies    Boston, MA 1994 (1993-94 & 2000-2001; DNA diagnostics)

Past Advisory roles:
GreenFuel Technologies Corp. Cambridge, MA 2004 (2005-2006; Photosynthetic CO2 emissions capture)
Flagship Ventures   Cambridge, MA 2000 (2000-2006; genomics & informatics)
Receptor Biologix   San Francisco, CA 2003 (2004-2007; alternative splicing)
Longenity Inc.; Boston, MA 2001 (2001-2005; human aging)
Xeotron (now Invitrogen)  Houston TX 2000 Atactic (2001-2004; Light-directed DNA/RNA-microarray synthesis)
Genome Pharmaceuticals     Martinsried, Germany 1998 (1998-2003; genomics for drug targets)
Caliper Technologies    Palo Alto, CA 1995 (1994-2002; microfluidics)
CodonCode Corp.   Dedham, MA 1996 (1996-2003); DNA sequencing software)
BeyondGenomics   (now BGMedicine) Cambridge, MA 2001 (2000-2004; biomarkers & systems biology)
EngeneOS Cambridge,MA 2001 see also CodonDevices, Gen9 (2000-2005; Engineered Genomic Operating Systems)
GenProfile AG Berlin, Germany 1998 (1997-2001; multiplex haplotyping)
Adeptient Los Altos, CA 2000 (2001-2002; inkjet aerosols for drug delivery and array manufacture)
First Genetic Trust Chicago, IL 2001 (2001-2002; personal genetic information access)
Sangamo (Gendaq) Richmond CA 1995 (2000-2002; Zn-finger engineering)
Genome Therapeutics (Oscient & Agencourt, previously Collaborative Research Inc.)   Waltham, MA 1961 & 1993 (1984 & 1989-1994; microbial genomes)
Biogen Inc.   Cambridge, MA 1978 (1984-1985; genomic sequencing)
Gamera (now Tecan LabCD) Medford, MA 1995 (1998-2000; microfluidics)
FamilyGenetix Oxford, UK (2000-2001; Genetic patient history software & services)
Bruker Daltonics Billerica, MA 1960 (1993-1997; Mass-tags)
Biorad-Sadtler Philadelphia, PA (1979-1981; DNA sequencing software)

Corporate research sponsors & collaborators not listed above:
Aventis (Rhone-Poulenc Rorer & Hoechst Marion Roussel)  Paris, Frankfurt, Collegeville PA, etc. 1990 (1998-2001; computational functional genomics)
MJ Research Inc. Waltham, MA 1987 (1986-1995; Pulsed Electrophoresis & PCR)
Polytech Plastics. Cambridge, MA 1982 (1982-1988; Sequencing electrotransfer devices)
Hamilton Company Reno NV 1957 (1986-1990; multisample handing syringes).
Intelligent Automation Cambridge, MA (1992-1996; multipin array oligo synthesizer).
Eli Lilly Indianapolis IN, 1876 (1998; bioinformatics)
NEN (Dupont/PerkinElmer) Boston, MA 1956 (1982-1984; nylon membranes)
See also supporters of PersonalGenomes.org and related research.


This page was last updated 2-Oct-2009 by GMC.