Genomics & Pharmacogenomics

Henry M. Sobell completed his studies at Brooklyn Technical High School (1948-1952), Columbia College (1952-1956), and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (1956-1960). Instead of practicing clinical medicine, he then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to join Professor Alexander Rich in the Department of Biology (1960-1965), where, as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, he learned the technique of single crystal X-ray analysis. He then joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester, having been subsequently jointly appointed to both the Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics departments (the latter at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry), becoming a full tenured Professor in both departments (1965-1993). He is now retired and living in the Adirondacks in New York, USA.

Drug Designing Molecular Physics

David I Smith is the Chairman of the Technology Assessment Group for the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. He is an expert of advanced DNA sequencing methodologies and how to use these to study the molecular alterations that occur during cancer development. His research focuses on the different roles that human papillomavirus plays in the development of different cancers. His group also studies genome instability during cancer development and the role that the common fragile sites plays in this.

Genome sequencing