George Church, Harvard University professor and genomics pioneer, became a scientific advisor to a biotech company for the first time in 1979 when he was still a PhD student at Harvard. Biorad-Sadtler was trying to develop a general purpose scanner of gel electrophoretic autoradiogram films, and asked Church to discuss the DNA sequencing software he had just written.
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