Laura Philips

Dr. Philips is the co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Spheryx, Inc. She serves on the Board of Boyce Thompson Plant Research Institute, a biological research institute associated with Cornell University where she is Chair of the Board, Diamir, an innovative diagnostics company focused on neurodegenerative disease, and The POGIL Project.

Dr. Philips served in the Clinton Administration both as a Fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as a Presidential Appointee in the position of Senior Policy Advisor to Sec. Ronald Brown in the Dept. of Commerce. She was Congressional Science Fellow and Legislative Advisor for Technology Policy to Sen. Joseph Lieberman in 1994-5. Dr. Philips was on the Faculty of Cornell University in the Dept of Chemistry from 1987-1993. During 1985 – 1987 she was an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Chemistry. She holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Cornell University.