Ph.D. - CSO + President, Co-founder
Rob was the founding CEO and is the current President and CSO of Molecular You Corporation. Molecular You was spun out of the Personalized Medicine Initiative (PMI) which Rob co-founded with leading scientists and clinicians in Canada to develop the framework and technologies to bring personalized medicine into healthcare practice. As the Chief Operating Officer of the PMI, Rob supported the establishment of six new companies, of which Rob was co-founder of three of them, including Molecular You.. He helped raise funding for all of them and has been at the forefront of developing the framework and technologies to bring personalized medicine into healthcare practice. Backed by his expertise in molecular diagnostics, molecularly targeted drug discovery and development, biochemistry and regulatory compliance, Rob has also been involved in leading drug discovery and development projects at Sanofi, Xenon, Neuromed and CDRD. Rob received extensive training in the molecular mechanisms of endocrinology while completing his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta and Harvard Medical School and Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and IGBMC, Strasbourg, France. In addition to Rob’s scientific accomplishments, he has been involved in the raising of more than $37M in funding. Rob is also co-founder of GenXys Health Care Systems, Personalized Biomarkers Incorporated, Mesentech Corporation and Novobind.