Jay Tischfield

Jay Tischfield (born June 15, 1946) is Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Distinguished Professor and the Founding Chair (1998 - 2010) of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University. He is Founding Director of the Rutgers Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey (2005 - 2020).

Professor Tischfield is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics in PhD Medical Genetics (1987 - ) and Clinical Molecular Genetics (1993 - 2019). He is a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.

He was the CEO and Scientific Director (2005 - 2020) of RUCDR Infinite Biologics® (formerly the Rutgers University Cell & DNA Repository). It was the largest university-based repository in the world collecting, processing and performing genomic assays on human samples. In April, 2020, RUCDR received emergency use authorization for the first saliva-based Covid-19 diagnostic test, 14 million of which were done by the end of the pandemic. RUCDR was sold for $44.4 millilion in 2020, forming IBX, a company which does business under the name Sampled. Tischfield has six U.S patents. Provided by Wikipedia