Clinical Geneticist
Petros Tsipouras, MD, straddled successfully the interface of academia, clinical medicine, and entrepreneurship for the past 25 years. Petros’ life work has been spent in mapping, cloning, fixing genes, and applying it in the characterization and management of human genetic disease. He has spun off several biotechnology and healthcare data companies. Most recently, Petros has set in motion FirstSteps, newborn genomic screening as a public health initiative in Greece and worldwide. Petros has been awarded 25 United States and International patents.
Petros received his degree in Medicine from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and was trained in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics, and Molecular Biology at Yale University, McGill University and UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics and the Canadian College of Clinical Geneticists.
Over the past 25 years, he was an NIH funded investigator in the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the University of Connecticut Health Center where he was a Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, and Chief of the Division of Human Genetics. Subsequently, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine. He has published more than 150 original papers, several reviews and book chapters in the fields of molecular genetics and genomics of human disease. He is a practicing Clinical Geneticist.
As an entrepreneur, Petros has successfully run companies from early start-up to mature commercial operations, raise capital to fund the development of technology platforms, launch In Vitro Diagnostics products, obtain FDA clearances, and set up a CLIA laboratory.