Prof. Michael Snyder profile page

As a pioneer of Precision Medicine, Michael has invented many technologies enabling the 21st century of healthcare, including systems biology, RNA sequencing and protein chip. Dr. Snyder has initiated the Big Data approach to healthcare through his work using omics to detect early stage disease, including wearables to detect infectious diseases like COVID-19, and at-home microsampling to measure hundreds of molecules from a single drop of blood. He is the first researcher to gather petabytes of data on individuals, which is one million to one trillion times more data than the average clinician collects. He has published over 800 papers and is one of the most cited scientists. In terms of commercial success, Mike has co-founded 17 companies (including 2 unicorns) with a combined enterprise value of over $6 billion.