Mark D. Adams

Dr. Adams earned a B.A. in Chemistry from the Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC in 1984. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1990. As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH, Dr. Adams developed the expressed sequence tag (EST) methodology for rapid characterization of the set of expressed genes in a tissue. As one of the founding scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Dr. Adams established and managed the large-scale DNA sequencing facility. In 1998, Dr. Adams co-founded Celera Genomics, where he was responsible for the DNA sequencing and genome annotation groups. Dr. Adams joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in 2003. He is a member of the Human Genome Organization, the American Society of Human Genetics, and the Mammalian Genome Society, and is an Associate Editor of Genomics.