Two Pore Guys (2PG) has come a long way in a little over 18 months Background of Two Pore Guys At the recent Next Generation Diagnostics Conference in Washington DC (#NGDx18) Two Pore Guys had a nice exhibit where I had the privilege of meeting Tyler Shropshire Ph.D., their Sr. Scientific Manager of R&D. It … Read more
This past week I attended the Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s “Applying Next Generation Sequencing” meeting in Providence R.I. Attendance was down which is an indicator of the maturity of NGS technology, constrained travel budgets, or an oversupply of NGS conferences, and probably a combination of all three.
At ABRF last weekend (Association for Biomolecular Resource Facilities) not only was I able to attend George Church’s talk, but I also was able to hear Steven Roever talk about his new nanopore sequencing company, Genia, where he is CEO.
As George Church introduced him, he has an unusual background for a next-generation sequencing company – involved with encryption and Digital Rights Management in prior roles, he met Roger Chien, a Maxim semiconductor company Digital to Analog Conversion chip expert, while at a Sand Hill Road Starbucks, as Roger was reading a book about the origin of life. (I’m not sure exactly which book, but it could have been Freeman Dyson’s.) Maxim, by the way, is a 9500-strong, $2.5B revenue company.