Raymond McCauley
| Raymond McCauley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Raymond W. McCauley III Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
| 🏡 Residence | Mountain View, California, U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Texas A&M University, Stanford University |
| 💼 Occupation | Scientist, engineer, entrepreneur |
| ❤️ Partner(s) | Kristina Hathaway (2005–2014) |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
| 🏅 Awards | Lechner Fellowship, National Science Foundation Student Scholar |
Raymond McCauley (born April 1, 1966) is a scientist, company advisor[1], engineer, entrepreneur, educator, investor[2], and media personality.[3] He is a co-founder of BioCurious, the world’s first biohacker lab, and one of the founding faculty of Singularity University. He is widely known for his work on genomics and DNA, and for predictions about technology trends.[4] While working at Illumina, he was one of the core members of a group who developed new DNA sequencing methods and technology, which has helped lower prices by a factor of millions[5]. He also correctly predicted the date that the “thousand dollar genome” would be achieved, over 10 years before in happened.
WIRED magazine describes him as a 'bioinformatics expert'[6]and as one of the original ‘health hackers’ and advocates for individual customised medicine and diet regimens based in part on genetic analysis.[7]
Education[edit]
Raymond McCauley’s postgraduate work includes studies at Texas A&M University, Stanford University and UC Berkeley. It covers subjects including electrical engineering, computer science, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and nanotechnology.
Career[edit]
Raymond worked as as a bioinformaticist at Rapigene (acquired by QIAGEN) and a systems biologist at Ingenuity Systems (now QIAGEN Silicon Valley). He was later headhunted for a position as a Senior Scientist in R&D at Illumina. During his tenure at the company, he was a core member of the team that discovered and refined the igation of fragmented DNA to a chip, followed by primer addition and sequential fluorescent dNTP incorporation and detection. He also worked on several of the company’s Seq-machines.
After leaving Illumina, he helped found and grow organizations including BioCurious, Genomera, Base10, Exponential Biosciences, and Platypus Project, while working at Singularity University.
Singularity University[edit]
McCauley joined Singularity University as a founding faculty member[8] This Silicon Valley organization has been backed by companies Google, Deloitte, Genentech, Cisco, and others. Since its early days, McCauley has served as faculty and Chair of Digital Biology.[9]
He was a core member of the team that ran Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program, which challenged students to apply exponential technologies and found companies that will positively impact at least one billion people within ten years.
BioCurious[edit]
Raymond McCauley is a co-founder of BioCurious, the world’s first biohackerspace, located in Santa Clara, California. Also referred to as community lab, it was started as a not-for-profit organization to support students and garage inventors. McCauley describes the original program as “a gym membership for science.” By paying $100 a month, and passing a safety class, members can access millions of dollars worth of advanced biotechnology equipment, along with a supportive pro-am community of mentors.
McCauley, along with fellow co-founders Eri Gentry, Kristina Hathaway, Joseph Jackson, Tito Jankowski, and Josh Perfetto, created the BioCurious with the help of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
BioCurious is a complete working laboratory for students, entrepreneurs to access equipment, materials, and co-working space, and a meeting place for citizen scientists, hobbyists, activists. Scientific American magazine has described BioCurious as "one of country’s premier community biotechnology labs [...]". Fast Company ranked the organization #4 in the world’s most innovative education companies.[10]
Current projects[edit]
McCauley is a noted advocate of hands-on learning, especially in STEM education, and promotes the incorporation of hacking in education. He has been quoted as saying that “kindergartners should hack biology the way they do Tinkertoys”.
McCauley's current projects include the Platypus Project, an effort to make educational toys, equipment, and narrative lessons available, that can be used to learn and experience biotechnology, as well as other STEAM subjects.
He is also a strong advocate for different nations to have strong, local ecosystems of biotechnology educators, professionals, and entrepreneurs, including appropriate government support and regulation, so that development in biotechnology is not driven by one nation or culture.
In addition, he is an active adviser and investor in early-stage “non-traditional biotechnology companies,” or companies that focus on applying biotechnology tools beyond human therapeutics, especially companies working in consumer products and goods, sensors, tools, food, and materials. He leads an investment syndicate focusing on these areas.
Personal life[edit]
McCauley was raised in Henrietta, Texas, and Weslaco, Texas. He currently lives in Mountain View, California, and Austin, Texas.
McCauley, along with his former partner, are supporters of alternatives to marriage[11]. When they were a couple, they never married, but set up contracts to mirror the rights that married couples have regarding insurance, taxes, health, and other legal issues. They currently co-parent their children in a single residence.
He is the father of twins, Harlan and Trent. Trent McCauley, was named for Trent after The protagonist in Cory Doctorow’s novel Pirate Cinema, who in turn was named after the protagonist of The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran. Harlan McCauley is named after his godfather, noted science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Chrunchbase profile for Raymond McCauley". Chrunchbase. 8 October 2018.
- ↑ "AngelList". angel.co. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ↑ "Raymond McCauley". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ↑ "EP 2015 12 backup McCauley DigBio".
- ↑ "Illumina wants to sequence your whole genome for $100". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ↑ Venkataramanan, Madhumita. "Biohacking goes industrial: six examples of future biotech products". Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ↑ Higginbotham, Adam. "Secrets of my DNA: Behind Raymond McCauley's cut-rate gene sequencing". Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ↑ ."Raymond McCauley". Exponential Medicine | November 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ↑ "Raymond McCauley – Chair – Singularity University". Singularity University. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ↑ "Genspace and BioCurious: Most Innovative Company | Fast Company". Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ↑ Davis, Lisa Selin (2009-05-25). "All but the Ring: Why Some Couples Don't Wed". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
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