Russ Singleton is the Vice President of Engineering and Informatics at Perlegen having responsibility for the technology operation for genotyping and SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) discovery. This operation includes: chip and SNP bioinformatics, LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) development, computation workflow development and infrastructure.
Russ Singleton has more than 25 years of technical and business leadership experience from a variety of industry sectors including biotechnology, instrumentation, and software. He was VP and GM at KLA-Tencor where he had responsibility for businesses spanning startup instrumentation, OEM hardware and software, enterprise software and consulting. Prior to KLA-Tencor, Dr. Singleton was VP of Engineering for Molecular Dynamics, a startup biotechnology discovery tools company. He led the development of multiple instrumentation and software products which were key in position the company for a successful IPO. Dr. Singleton has more than 20 years experience in engineering, marketing and strategic business development, including holding the distinction of being co-inventor for the first commercial image-processing based optical wafer inspection system. Dr. Singleton also serves on the board of a small biotech instrumentation firm as well as an advisor to a boutique M&A firm. Russell M. Singleton has a M.S and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a B. Eng. (Electrical) from Pratt Institute.
Dr. Singleton will discuss Perlegen Sciences and its mission to use whole genome associations to uncover the genetic causes of diseases and use those associations to commercialize personalized medicines.
