Stanley Lapidus

Stan Lapidus is an inventor and entrepreneur. He founded two of the most successful companies in the history of the diagnostic industry. Cytyc Corporation transformed screening for cervical cancer with the modern Pap test--the ThinPrep. Exact Sciences has revolutionized screening for colorectal cancer with its Cologuard test. Stan holds 37 US patents. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2014 for his pioneering work on the early detection of cancer. He served as an instructor at MIT from 2001 to 2017. Stan received his BS in electrical engineering from Cooper Union in New York City.