Partnering on Multiscale Biology

PacBio CSO Eric Schadt to lead a 'Multiscale Institute' at Mount Sinai,

Pacific Biosciences has announced a partnership with Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) in New York to create the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology.

The director of the new institute will be PacBio's chief science officer, Eric Schadt, who is retaining his non-operational position at PacBio while moving to New York this summer to run the center. The institute will be the hub of genomics research at MSSM, collaborating with 13 other translational and core facilities at Mount Sinai, and incorporating a user facility featuring PacBio's technology.

The MSSM SMRT Biology facility will …