Board of Directors

Richard Rava, Ph.D.

President

Dr. Rava comes to Artemis Health after 16 years at Affymetrix where he was a scientific co-founder and most recently Senior Vice President of Research and Development. While in various roles at Affymetrix, he led the research, development and manufacturing scale-up of the Affymetrix GeneChip^® technology. He was responsible for the delivery of multiple products involving complex assays, microarrays, instrumentation and software that merged scientific technology with the needs of the gene expression, genetics research and clinical markets.

Prior to joining Affymetrix, Dr. Rava served as a Senior Scientist at Affymax Research Institute. From 1990 through 1992, he served as Principal Research Scientist at the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During that time, he was also the research coordinator for the National Institute of Health Laser Biomedical Research Center at MIT. Dr. Rava has over 60 papers in refereed scientific publications and over 30 issued U.S. patents. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rutgers University.