Michele Cargill

Michele has more than 17 years of experience as a human geneticist in both industry and academia, with a primary interest in discovering the genes that contribute to human disease and translating that information for patients and medical care professionals. She trained under the David Botstein at Stanford Medical School, where she earned her doctorate in genetics, and under Eric Lander at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she completed her postdoctoral training. Prior to co-founding Locus Development, Dr. Cargill was the vice president of genetics at Navigenics and the associate director of genomic collaborations at Affymetrix. She also served as a senior staff scientist at Celera Diagnostics and as the scientific program manager at Celera Genomics.