Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 14, 2002
EUGENE CHAN is Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Genomics, Inc. Mr. Chan
is the visionary leading U.S. Genomics. He founded the company by
creating a set of technologies that mimic nature's method of reading DNA
at high speeds. Mr. Chan graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College,
where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Detur Prize.
Prior to founding USG, he briefly attended Harvard Medical School. Mr.
Chan is responsible for corporate strategy, mobilizing technological
innovation, financing, overall operations and corporate development. Profile
TWST: Could you sketch out the history of U.S. Genomics, and thenexplain your technology in layman's terms?
Mr. Chan: U.S. Genomics was founded in April 1997, when I was
completing,