Bob Molinari

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Robert Molinari, PhD, MBA is a co-founder, president and CEO of Retrotope and an author of many published articles on technology transformations in healthcare and the future of pharmaceuticals as part of the Institute for the Futures Healthcare Horizons.

Since 1988, Dr. Molinari has been a successful founding CEO or a managing officer of companies developing research tools for drug discovery. Dr. Molinari received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1974, where he earned the status of Rufus Choate Scholar, a Ph.D., in physical chemistry from Brown University in 1977, with a thesis elucidating the dielectric behavior of DNA. Dr. Molinari also earned an MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

In 1988, Dr. Molinari left McKinsey to become the founding CEO of a technology spin-out of SmithKline Beckman, which then developed market leading products to improve the productivity of DNA sequencing.

In 1993, Dr. Molinari started a custom DNA synthesis company, Protogene Laboratories, which became the largest manufacturer of custom DNA reagents in the world, and was acquired by Life Technologies.

In 2004, Dr. Molinari joined CODA Genomics, Inc. as founding CEO.

In 2008, Dr. Molinari co-founded [http://www.retrotope.com/ Retrotope] , an anti-aging and diseases of aging mitigation company, with Dr. Charles Cantor, a member of the US Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Mikhail Shchepinov, a researcher based in Oxford England.

See also

* i-food
* DNA synthesis
* Anti-aging
* Isotope

External links

* [http://www.codagenomics.com/ CODA Genomics Company Website]
* [http://www.igb.uci.edu/specialevent06/speakers.html Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, UCI]
* [http://www.sabpa.org/web/news_files/2006-biomedical-forum/speakers.htm LA Biomedical Forum]