Eric Schadt
Eric Schadt, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of Sema4, a patient-centered health intelligence company built on the idea that more information, deeper analysis, and increased. longitudinal engagement of patients will improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Eric has overseen rapid growth at Sema4 since the company was founded in 2017, driven by the company’s dedication to advancing healthcare through data-driven insights.
Eric is a world-renowned expert on constructing predictive models of disease that link molecular biology to physiology to enable clinical medicine. Over the past 20 years, he has built groups and companies (Merck, Rosetta, Sage Bionetworks, Pacific Biosciences, Icahn Institute, and now Sema4) to elucidate the complexity of human diseases. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals and contributed to discoveries relating to the genetic basis of common human diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer’s disease. Now, with Centrellis™, Sema4’s innovative health intelligence platform, Eric is using advanced network analysis to build better models of human health and deliver personalized insights for patients.
Eric also serves as the Dean for Precision Medicine and Mount Sinai Professor in Predictive Health and Computational Biology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was previously Founding Director of Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences.
Eric earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, his M.A. from the University of California, Davis, and his B.S. from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.