Mark Bouzyk

Dr. Bouzyk is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of AKESOgen, Inc., a Tier 1 genomics and precision medicine company based in Peachtree Corners, Georgia – now part of Tempus Laboratories of Chicago, Illinois. Prior to AKESOgen, Dr. Bouzyk spent 6 years as a faculty member in the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. During his tenure at Emory he served as a Director of the Emory Biomarker Service Center (EBSC), Director, Basic Research Shared Core Resources, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, as well as Director of the Center for Medical Genomics -which he established. During this time he was instrumental in the Winship Cancer Institute gaining NIH Cancer Center Status - a first for any institute in the state of Georgia.