Stephen Turner

Biography

Stephen Turner founded Pacific Biosciences (formerly Nanofluidics), securing Series A funding in 2004. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics by Cornell University in 2000, where he worked with Professor Harold Craighead to study the behavior of biomolecules in nanofabricated structures. He was a member of the project team at Cornell that developed the technology now employed by Pacific Biosciences and was co-author of the cover story in Science magazine that introduced the technology to the scientific community (January 31, 2003). Dr. Turner’s undergraduate work was at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Physics. He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers in fields ranging from DNA sequencing technology and biophysics to genomics and epigenomics. He is listed as the inventor on over 50 U.S. patents and numerous published patent applications. Dr. Turner received the MIT Technology Review “TR100” Award in 2003 and the University of Wisconsin Madison Distinguished Young Alumnus Award in 2008.

Research Interest

Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics