Mike Ramsey

Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, USA

Dr. J. Michael Ramsey holds the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chair at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. In addition to his appointment in the Department of Chemistry, he is also a member of the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences in the UNC-CH School of Medicine. Dr. Ramsey is also the director of the UNC Center for Biomedical Microtechnologies. His present research interests include microfabricated chemical instrumentation, micro- and nanofluidics, single molecule DNA sequencing, single cell assays, point-of-care clinical diagnostic devices, and highly miniaturized mass spectrometry. Dr. Ramsey is the sole scientific founder of Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ:CALP), later renamed Caliper Life Sciences and acquired by PerkinElmer in 2011. Caliper is the leading commercial supplier of microfluidic technologies; tools primarily used in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He is also the scientific founder of 908 Devices, a company developing revolutionary handheld mass spectrometry instrumentation.