Dr. Gage stands as a co-founder of BioTuring. In addition to this role, he holds the positions of President and Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute, where he joined since 1995. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, a Member of the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Weinberger has served on our board of directors since 2016. He's a professor of psychiatry, neurology, and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and serves as Director and CEO of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development since its 2011 inception. He received the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Dr. Son, CEO and Chief Scientist at BioTuring, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, known for inventing the paired de Bruijn graph for genome assembly. During his postdoc at the Salk Institute, he researched transcriptomes and genomes of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia patients. He also contributed to identifying mitochondrial abnormalities in young neurons from bipolar disorder patients.
Dr. Paten has served as our Scientific Advisor since 2016. He's an Associate Professor in Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and an associate director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. In 2015, he established the Computational Genomics Lab, dedicated to addressing biomolecular challenges through algorithms, software, and services. Dr. Paten earned his Ph.D. in computational biology from the University of Cambridge and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
