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:
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)



This page was last updated 8-Nov-2006 by GMC.