Eugene Chan, MD

Eugene Y. Chan, M.D., one of our Co-founders, has previously served as chairman of our board of directors, chairman of our scientific advisory board. Dr. Chan has been with our company since co-founding our company in 2007. Dr. Chan has served in various capacities at our company, including chief scientific officer, from February 2014 to March 2017. Dr. Chan currently manages rHEALTH, a digital health company, and runs the DNA Medicine Institute, a medical innovation laboratory. Dr. Chan holds over 60 patents and publications in the fields of biochemistry, diagnostics and nucleic acid analysis. He has been honored as one of Esquire magazine’s Best and Brightest, MIT Technology Review’s Top 100 Innovators and as a Grand Prize winner of XPRIZE’s Nokia Sensing XChallenge. Dr. Chan received an A.B. in biochemical sciences from Harvard College summa cum laude, trained in medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.