Sunnyvale, CA, October 25, 1995 -- HYSEQ announced today the appointment of Dr.
Hwa Lim, as Director of its Informatics Division. A pioneer and internationally
recognized leader in bioinformatics, Dr. Lim initiated and convenes the annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Genome Research. Dr. Lim's role
at HYSEQ will be to coordinate all DNA and protein data analysis for HYSEQ and
to direct the development of the next generation of sequence analysis
software.
Lewis Gruber, President and CEO of HYSEQ, said "We are very pleased to
have Dr. Lim join us in obtaining commercial benefits from what is designed to
be the world's broadest and deepest set of DNA databases. By making Dr. Lim a
part of our team, we are emphasizing our commitment to be the best in all our
business segments."
A prolific writer, Dr. Lim has published more than 80 scientific papers
and has authored or edited six books, including Supercomputing and Complex
Genome Analysis (1995) and the soon to be published text, Gene Families:
Structure, Function, Genetics and Evolution (1996). Dr. Lim serves on the
editorial boards of three scholarly journals, including the International
Journal of Genome Research.
A recipient of several grants and awards, Dr. Lim has also served as a
grant review panelist for federal agencies. This includes work for the National
Institutes of Health where he served as an expert in anticancer, anti-AIDS
database operations and maintenance. At the National Science Foundation, Dr. Lim
served as a reviewer for application in computer information science and
engineering. His expertise in database development and data analysis has also
allowed him to serve as a bioinformatics expert for the United Nations.
Dr. Lim's extensive experience in the analysis of nucleotide and amino
acid sequences and the compilation of biological databases complements HYSEQ's
proprietary, high throughput DNA analysis technology by providing unique
insights into coding regions, exon/intron structures, and comparative
structure/function analyses of proteins. In addition, Dr. Lim's work will
emphasize his experience in the modeling and simulation of biological systems,
an areas that has important bearing on the development of therapeutic and
diagnostic products.
Dr. Lim, a graduate of Imperial College of Science and Technology, the
Royal College of Science, University of London (UK), and the University of
Rochester (New York, USA), has been working in various capacities in computers
and computational work since 1979. His career started in London's largest
computer facility. Later, he worked at the supercomputer facility of the
Laboratory of Laser Energetics in Rochester, New York. Most recently, Dr. Lim
served as a group leader and program director at the Supercomputer Computations
Research Institute at Florida State University. While there he was also a
faculty member.
HYSEQ, based in Sunnyvale, California, is commercializing discoveries
resulting from the application of its patented SBH technology. It also
collaborates with diagnostic and therapeutic companies to address commercial
markets that require large-scale sequencing and analysis of DNA.