Michael P. Snyder

Michael P. Snyder is an American genomicist and the Stanford B. Ascherman Professor, and since 2009, chair of genetics and director of genomics and personalized medicine at Stanford University. He is the former director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. During his tenure as chair of the department at Stanford, ''U.S. News & World Report'' has ranked Stanford University first or tied for first in genetics, genomics and bioinformatics under his leadership.

Snyder has co-founded companies in genetics, genomics, and personalized medicine, including Personalis, a company that develops software to interpret genomes after sequencing; January AI, a health startup; Protometrix; Affomix; and Q Bio.

Snyder has been a principal investigator of the ENCODE project since its inception in 2003, and co-director of the CIRM Center for Stem Cell Genomics and director of the Center for Genome of Gene Regulation.

Snyder pioneered the use of multi-omic longitudinal profiling to track health. Provided by Wikipedia