Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 18, 2000

Arthur Sands – Lexicon Genetics Incorporated (lexg)

ARTHUR T. SANDS, MD, PhD, founded Lexicon Genetics Incorporated and has been its President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since September 1995. Prior to founding Lexicon, Dr. Sands served as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, where he studied the function of the p53 gene in cancer formation and created the XPC knockout mouse, a model for skin cancer. He received his BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University and his MD and PhD from Baylor College of Medicine. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief overview of Lexicon Genetics.

Dr. Sands: Lexicon Genetics Incorporated is a genomics-based drug

discovery company that uses information on how human genes work to