SMA Archive | Summer Conference 2002

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Summer Conference 2002

The 2002 Summer Conference begins with a two–day Pre–Immersion session. See below for the Pre–Immersion agenda, and biographies of speakers for this event.

The Entrepreneurship Session (Pre-Immersion) was held at Wong Auditorium, Tang Center (E-51)

• Agenda
  • July 25th, Thursday
  • July 26th, Friday
• Speaker
  • Kenneth P. Morse
  • Mayank T. Bulsara
  • John Ruark
  • Richard Oedel
  • Charles Cooney
  • Arvind
  • Vladimir Bulovic
  • Resve Saleh
  • Neil Goldfine
  • Eugene Chan
  • Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande
  • View speaker abstracts and biogrphies
• Photo Gallery
  • Student Arrival
  • Orientation
  • Welcome Dinner

Speaker

Dr. Eugene Chan
Chairman and Chief, U.S. Genomics

Abstract
"The Founding and Growth of U.S. Genomics for the developments of personal genomics"

Biography
Chan is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Genomics. Eugene is the visionary leading U.S. Genomics. He founded the company by creating a set of technologies that mimic nature's method of reading DNA at high speeds. Mr. Chan graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Detur Prize. Prior to founding USG, he briefly attended Harvard Medical School. Mr. Chan is responsible for corporate strategy, mobilizing technological innovation, financing, overall operations, and corporate development.