Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 5, 2000

Stanley Lapidus – Exact Laboratories Inc

STANLEY N. LAPIDUS founded EXACT Laboratories, Inc. in 1995 and has been Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the company since inception. In 1987 he founded Cytyc Corporation, which manufactures a device that significantly improves the quality of Pap smears. In 1982, Mr. Lapidus co-founded Itran Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial machine vision products. Mr. Lapidus has received 15 US patents and has 14 patent applications pending. Mr. Lapidus is also an Assistant Research Professor in the pathology department of Tufts University Medical School in Boston. He serves on advisory boards to the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Cancer Prevention, the Cooper Union School of Engineering, and Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Mr. Lapidus graduated from Cooper Union in 1970 with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief overview of EXACT Laboratories?

Mr. Lapidus: The story begins with Cytyc Corporation, a company I

founded in 1987. Cytyc's business is to improve pap smears