Primary Job Title Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Primary Organization 
Avant Diagnostics
Location Los Altos, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Mark Schena is a renowned biochemist whose research interests focuses on microarray technology, genomics, proteomics, genotyping, molecular diagnostics and gene expression. Mark Schena and his colleagues at Stanford University published the first paper on microarrays in 1995 (Science 270, 467-470), catalyzing the explosive proliferation of
microarray technology at academic and commercial institutions internationally.
The 1995 Science paper is the most highly cited paper in the history of Arabidopsis research and a recent article in The Scientist places him at positions 1 and 2 on the “microarray family tree”, confirming his role as the founder of microarray technology and substantiating his Father of Microarray Technology status.
More than 100,000 laboratories in 50 countries are using microarrays to explore basic questions in biology, chemistry, agriculture and medicine, and the proliferation of the technology has resulted in 797,000 microarray publications since Mark Schena original 1995 Science paper.
