Howard Jacob

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has appointed Howard Jacob vice president for medical genomics and chief medical genomics officer. Jacob has more than 25 years of experience in genetic sequencing and joins HudsonAlpha from the Medical College of Wisconsin where he served for almost 20 years, including as the founding director of the Human and Molecular Genetics Center and as a professor of physiology. Previous to that, he was on the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.