W. Richard Mccombie
Professor
Biotechnology
Orion Genomics
Malaysia
Biography
Dr. McCombie is a member of the Board of Directors and a scientific co-founder of the Company. He is a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Dr. McCombie received his B.A. in Biology from Wabash College, his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Microbiology Department of the University of Texas (Austin). He worked in the area of yeast gene expression at Phillips Petroleum, and was a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, where he was the leader of one of the first groups to carry out large-scale automated sequencing of genomic DNA and helped to organize the first large-scale EST sequencing project. He has been on the faculty at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1992.
Research Interest
Genomics
