Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 13, 2003
DR. VLADIMIR MAKAROV is Co-Founder and CSO of Rubicon Genomics,
Inc. Dr. Makarov is co-inventor of the core technology of Rubicon
Genomics and is currently leading the R&D team at Rubicon. He has
held research positions at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular
Biology at the USSR Academy of Science, and most recently at the
Biophysics Research Division at the University of Michigan. Dr.
Makarov is a scientist with broad expertise in different fields,
including solid state physics and optics, biophysics of DNA and
DNA-protein complexes, chromatin structure, and DNA and protein
enzymology. His recent contributions to genomics include new DNA
sequencing and amplification techniques. He is an inventor on
five University of Michigan patent applications and has over 50
scientific publications. Dr. Makarov has a PhD in Physics and
Mathematics from Leningrad State University. Profile
Dr. Makarov: Rubicon is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company,
developing and commercializing nucleic acid-based amplification,
analysis
