Lloyd M. Smith Ph.d.

Biography

Dr. Lloyd M. Smith, Ph.D. is a Founder of Gentel Biosurfaces Inc. He also co-founded and served as a Consultant at Third Wave Technologies, Inc. Dr. Smith is a Professor of Chemistry of the Genome Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, since June 1994 and a Director at the University, where he has been since 1988. He was the primary inventor of automated DNA sequence analysis. Dr. Smith’s expertise and research interests include the development of novel methods for the analysis and manipulation of nucleic acids and biomolecules. In 1982 he moved to the California Institute of Technology, where he developed the first fluorescence-based automated DNA sequencing instrument. Dr. Smith serves on the Board of Directors of GWC Technologies, Inc. and GenTel Biosurfaces, Inc. He serves as Director of the Genome Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Smith is the chair of the Scientific Advisory Boards for GenTel Biosurfaces, Inc. and ProCognia Limited, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CuraGen Corp., and a Member of Advisory Board at Venture Investors, L.L.C. He also serves on the editorial Boards of Genome Research, DNA Sequence Genetic Analysis: Techniques and Applications and Journal of Capillary Electrophoresis. Dr. Smith served as a Director of Third Wave Technologies Inc. since formation in 1993 and also served on Scientific Advisory Board. He served as a Director of Visible Genetics Inc. since March 1995 and was a Member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of Fotodyne Inc. and Boehringer Mannheim Corp. Dr. Smith is a Past Member of the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute Advisory Council and the NIH Human Genome Study Section. He has been named one of Science Digest's Top 100 Innovators and Wisconsin Entrepreneur of the Year and has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for the development of automated DNA sequencing, American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation, and is John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Smith has authored over 165 scientific papers and is inventor on 20 issued U.S. patents. He received an A.B. degree in Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford University in 1981.

Research Interest

Cell Science & Therapy