Howard Jacob

Howard Jacob is Founder, President & Chief Scientific Officer of Envision Genomics. Envision Genomics is based on its Founders’ 7 years of experience delivering genomic medicine tools to patients. Four of those seven years were spent at the Medical College of Wisconsin, during which time Dr. Jacob and the Envision Genomics Founder team were the first to use genomic sequencing to save a patient’s (Nic Volker) life. Now, as an associate company of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Envision Genomics’ goal is to enable hospitals and healthcare systems to practice genomic medicine immediately by leveraging the know-how of the Founders, a best-in-class genomic informatics platform and the leading-edge technology infrastructure of HudsonAlpha. Dr. Jacob’s passion for improving the lives of critically ill patients with rare/undiagnosed disease has been the catalyst for his determination to bring whole genome sequencing into the clinical setting to positively impact patient care.

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