Dr. Jonathan Rothberg is the founder of CuraGen Corporation and has served as Chairman, President and CEO since opening its laboratories in 1993. From 1991 to 1993 he served as a postdoctoral Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine. Dr Rothberg received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his M.S., M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University. As a result of his work and accomplishments, Dr. Rothberg has been named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and was a recipient of the Irvington Institute Corporate Leadership Award in Science.