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Jeff Spitzner

Chief Science Officer, President, and Founder, Rescentris

Current

• President and Chief Science Officer at Rescentris

Past

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, BioMedical Informatics at Ohio State University
• Chief Science Officer and VP Business Development at LabBook
• Founder, VP, and Chief Scientific Officer at Visual Genomics, Inc.

• Post-Doc at MIT

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• The Ohio State University

Public Profile

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffspitzner

Summary

Jeff Spitzner, Ph.D., has more than 20 years experience founding and managing scientific software and biotechnology companies and is a recognized leader in electronic lab notebooks (ELNs), bioinformatics, and knowledge management. Dr. Spitzner is currently President, Chief Science Officer, and a Founder of Rescentris, a software company that develops information management solutions for the scientific and biomedical research industry, specifically software that replaces paper-based lab notebooks with collaborative systems that unify all the documents and data in the research lab. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University. Previously, Dr. Spitzner was VP, Business Development and Chief Science Officer with LabBook, Inc., and had similar founding roles in other informatics and biotechnology organizations, including Visual Genomics and TopoGen, and he has been involved in information technology solutions for life sciences since 1986.

He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at The Ohio State University, then conducted postdoctoral studies on DNA-protein interactions and molecular cancer research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1997 Dr. Spitzner co-authored data standards for integrating and exchanging genome research information that resulted in the development of BSML as the pioneering XML technology in the life sciences, today a widely adopted XML data standard in the industry. He has numerous publications and gives many invited presentations at leading international research conferences. His current activities are in business development, science, and as product visionary for Rescentris' development of its Collaborative Electronic Research Framework (CERF), which uses semantic research ontologies to integrate electronic lab notebooks, informatics and knowledge management in order to provide an electronic record-keeping solution that enhances collaboration and R&D productivity.