Petros Tsipouras has straddled successfully the interface of academia, clinical medicine, and entrepreneurship for the past 20 years. Petros life work has been spent in mapping, cloning, fixing genes, and applying it in the characterization and management of human genetic disease. He has spun off several biotechnology and healthcare data companies. Petros has been awarded 25 United States and International patents. Petros has served as an Adjunct Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine. In the course of the past 20 years Petros was an NIH funded investigator in the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the University of Connecticut Health Center where he was a Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, and Chief of the Division of Human Genetics. He has published more than 150 original papers and book chapters in the molecular genetics and genomics of human disease. Petros continues to practice Clinical Genetics. He received his degree in Medicine from the National University of Athens and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics and the Canadian College of Clinical Geneticists As an entrepreneur, Petros has successfully run companies from an early start-up to mature commercial operations, raise capital to fund the development of technology platforms, launch In Vitro Diagnostics products, obtain FDA clearances, and set up a CLIA laboratory.