Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> February 19, 2001

John Chiplinn – Geneformatics Inc

DR. JOHN CHIPLIN President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of GeneFormatics, Inc. has worked for a number of early'stage bio-infotech companies that went on to become successful, multinational, profitable companies including Molecular Design Limited and Biosym Technologies, Inc. Immediately prior to co-founding GeneFormatics, Dr. Chiplin was Chief Executive Officer of Superscape Plc, one of the world's leading virtual reality technology companies, quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Born in 1958, he holds a BS in Pharmacy and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Nottingham, England. Professional affiliations include memberships in the Pharmaceutical Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Institute of Directors. Profile
TWST: Could you provide our readers with a brief history and an overview

of GeneFormatics?

Dr. Chiplin: GeneFormatics is a company that we started in December of

1998. It is based on the