Christopher Adams

Biography

Christopher P. Adams is an American scientist, entrepreneur, and inventor who founded and led (as chief executive officer) multiple biotechnology companies, including Mosaic Technologies and Andarix Pharmaceuticals. Adams has made a notable contribution to the field of genetics as a co-inventor (with Steve Kron) of "bridge amplification," a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique that paved the way for development of DNA sequencing and genome sequencing. Geneticist George Church and computational biologist Rob Mitra adapted Adams' and Kron's technique to be used for clonal amplification. Adams has spoken about the difficulties he faced in launching Mosaic and getting investors to buy in.

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