Tom Chen

Tom Chen, PhD, is a Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Universal Sequencing Technology Corporation. Tom has over 20 years of R&D experience on next generation sequencing platforms and applications, invented and developed 454 paired end sequencing, SOLiD and Ion Torrent mate paired sequencing, Ion Shear DNA fragmentation, Ion Torrent bi-directional sequencing, isothermal clonal amplification, and UST TELL-Seq linked read library technology and AmpliDrop barcoding technology, etc. Prior to Universal Sequencing, Tom was Principal Scientist and Senior Manager at Life Technologies/Thermo Fisher, Staff Scientist at 454/Roche, and Postdoctoral Scientist at Schering-Plough Research Institute. Tom received his PhD in Biology from McGill University and MSc & BSc in Molecular Biology from Nankai University.