Current Scientific Advisory Roles:
Danaher-Polonator Salem, NH 2007 (2007-present; sequencing system)
SunEthanol Amherst MA 2007 (2007-present; Biofuels)
LightSpeed Genomics (2007-present; high-speed DNA sequencing)
Complete Genomics Sunnyvale, CA 2006 (2006-present; sequencing nanoarrays)
Codon Devices Cambridge, MA 2005 (2005-present; Constructive Biology)
Knome, Inc. Cambridge, MA (2007-present; Human Genome Sequencing)
LS9 San Francisco, CA 2005 (2006-present; Biologically engineered fuels)
Enzymatics Beverly, MA 2006 (2006-present; Large-scale, high quality enzymes)
IntelligentBioSystems (IBS) Waltham, MA 2006 (2006-present; Sequencing by Extension on beads)
PharmoRx Wellesley , MA 2005 (2005-present; secure medication)
Helicos Biosciences Corp Cambridge, MA 2004 (2003-present; Single-molecule DNA sequencing)
23andme Mountain View, CA 2006 (2006-present; personal genomics)
DNAdirect San Francisco, CA 2004 (2006-present; DNA diagnostics)
Genomatica San Diego CA 2001
(2001-present; microbial metabolic models)
Companies licensing Church lab patents or software:
Affymetrix (Affymax)
Palo Alto, CA 1993 (1990-present; 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)
Lynx - Solexa Illumina Hayward, CA 1992 (2000-2006; multiplex tags)
Pyrosequencing
(also Biotage - 454
Stockholm 2000 (2001-present; modified dNTPs for array sequencing)
Millipore Bedford,MA (1989-1990;
multiplex sequencing)
Mosaic Technologies
Boston, MA 1994 (1993-94 & 2000-2001; DNA diagnostics)
Agilent 2000 (2001-present; nucleic
acid nanopore sensors)
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 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 (2000-present;
Engineered Genomic Operating Systems)
GenProfile AG Berlin, Germany
1998 (1997-2001; multiplex haplotyping)
Adeptient Los Altos,
CA 2000 (2001-2002; aerosols for drug delivery and array manufacture)
First Genetic Trust Chicago,
IL 2001 (2001-2002; personal genetic information access)
Sangamo Richmond CA 1995 (2001-2002;
Zn-finger engineering)
Genome Therapeutics (now
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)
Gendaq London, UK 2000
(2000-present; Zn-finger phage display arrays)
MJ Research Inc. Waltham, MA 1987
(1986-present; Pulsed Electrophoresis & PCR)
Polytech Plastics. Cambridge, MA 1982 (1982-1988; Electrophoretic devices)
Hamilton Company (1986-1990;
multisample
handing).
Intelligent Automation
Cambridge, MA (1992-1996; multipin array oligo synthesizer).
Eli Lilly (1998; bioinformatics)
NEN (Dupont/PerkinElmer) (1982-1984;
nylon membranes)