Genes, chips and genomes

Dr. Lipshutz received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, and his M.A. and A.B. from Harvard University, all in mathematics. Presently, he is Vice President of Corporate Development at Affymetrix, a biotechnology company developing DNA chip-based research products for the genomics and clinical diagnostic markets. Prior to this position he was Director of bioinformatics and advanced technology. The genome informatics group is responsible for DNA chip design, data analysis, instrumentation software and software product development. The advanced technology group is developing miniaturized integrated nucleic acid analysis devices under an ATP grant. His research at Affymetrix involved combinatorics, computer science, probability, statistics and computer modeling.