Dietrich Stephan

Dietrich A. Stephan is an American human geneticist and entrepreneur who works in personalized medicine.

Dietrich A. Stephan
Born	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Scientist and entrepreneur
Known for	Co-founder of Navigenics

Stephan was CEO of NeuBase Therapeutics^[1] and a general partner in Cyto Ventures. Before NeuBase, Stephan was CEO of LifeX^[2] and chairman and professor of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. Earlier, he was founding chairman of the Neurogenomics Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute. Stephan has founded or co-founded 14 biotechnology companies^{[citation needed]} and was co-founder of Navigenics,^[3] a personal genomics company.

Academic career

Stephan received his B.Sc. in biology from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in human molecular genetics from the University of Pittsburgh, followed by a fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institute.^[4]

In 2003, Stephan worked at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)^[5] as a senior investigator and founding chairman of its Department of Neurogenomics.^{[citation needed]}