David Spetzler

Biography

 Dr. David Spetzler, MS, MBA, PhD serves as Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Caris Life Sciences, Inc. Dr. Spetzler joined the Caris Life Sciences scientific team in August 2009, where he leads the Research and Development division of Caris. His executive and scientific oversight of the R&D team is focused on the development of clinical assays to aid in the creation of precision medicine strategies for individual cancer patients, as well as noninvasive technologies to identify and predict early stage cancer. His work is focused on the development of the ADAPT Biotargeting System™, a groundbreaking and proprietary method of profiling macro-molecular complexes in their native form in a highly multiplexed format. The innovative technology is the result of the convergence of Caris’ deep expertise in Next-Generation Sequencing, exosome biology, bioinformatics and broad-based molecular profiling. Prior to his position at Caris, Dr. Spetzler was a Member of The Research Faculty at Arizona State University where he developed multiplexed nanotechnologies for single molecule detection of nucleic acid and protein targets. He also developed novel methods of using DNA to create biological computers to solve NP-complete optimization problems, and built a novel optical detection system capable of measuring single molecule protein conformational changes with microsecond time resolution. He has published numerous research articles, is an adjunct faculty member of the molecular cellular biology program at Arizona State University, been a scientific and commercial reviewer for SBIR/STTR grants for NSF, and is an author on more than twenty patents. At Arizona State University, Dr. Spetzler earned an MS from the School of Mathematical and 

Research Interest

 Biotechnology