Bio Details

Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ph.D. is the Founder of Legacy Hyperfine and Liminal and has served as a member of our board of directors since the closing of the Business Combination in December 2021 and had served on the board of directors of Legacy Hyperfine since 2014 and the board of directors of Liminal since 2018. Dr. Rothberg previously served as Legacy Hyperfine’s Chief Executive Officer from 2014 to 2021. Dr. Rothberg is a scientist and entrepreneur who was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, by President Obama for inventing and commercializing high-speed DNA sequencing. Dr. Rothberg is the Founder of the 4Catalyzer medical technology incubator and the Founder and Chairman of its companies: Legacy Hyperfine, Liminal, Quantum-Si Incorporated, Butterfly Network, Inc., identifeye HEALTH Inc. (formerly Tesseract Health, Inc.), Protein Evolution, Inc., and Detect, Inc. (formerly Homodeus Inc.). These companies focus on using inflection points in medicine, such as deep learning, next-generation sequencing, and the silicon supply chain, to address global healthcare challenges. Additionally, Dr. Rothberg serves as an Adjunct Professor of Research of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Rothberg previously founded and served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer of Ion Torrent Systems, Inc. from 2007 to 2010, and founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RainDance Technologies, Inc. from 2004 to 2009. From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Rothberg co-founded and served as Chairman of ClarifI, Inc., and from 1999 to 2006, he founded and served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of 454 Life Sciences Corporation. With 454 Life Sciences, Dr. Rothberg brought to market the first new way to sequence genomes since Sanger and Gilbert won the Nobel Prize for their method in 1980. With 454’s technology, Dr. Rothberg sequenced the first individual human genome, and with Svante Paabo he initiated the first large-scale effort to sequence ancient DNA (The Neanderthal Genome Project). Prior to 454 Life Sciences, Dr. Rothberg founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CuraGen Corporation from 1993 to 2004. Dr. Rothberg’s contributions to the field of genome sequencing include the first non-bacterial cloning method (cloning by limited dilution) and the first massively parallel DNA sequencing method (parallel sequencing by synthesis on a single substrate), concepts that have formed the basis for all subsequent next generation sequencing technologies. Dr. Rothberg is an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, is the recipient of The Wall Street Journal’s First Gold Medal for Innovation, SXSW Best in Show, Nature Methods First Method of the Year Award, the Connecticut Medal of Technology, the DGKL Biochemical Analysis Prize, and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Mount Sinai. Dr. Rothberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Rothberg serves on the board of directors of Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY) and Chairman of the board of directors of Quantum-Si Incorporated (Nasdaq: QSI). Dr. Rothberg received his Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.S. in biology from Yale University and his B.S. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Rothberg’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his significant scientific, executive and board leadership experience in the technology industry, as well as his knowledge of our business as the Founder of Legacy Hyperfine and Liminal.