Dr. Preston W. “Pete” Estep III
Preston W. “Pete” Estep III, Ph.D. is the CEO and Chief Scientific
Officer of TeloMe, Inc., a telomere analysis and engineering biotech
company he cofounded with Professor George Church of Harvard Medical
School, and head of the Personal Genome Project (PGP). He is also a
cofounder and former CEO of the longevity research biotechnology company
Longenity, Inc. Pete also is an adviser to the
PGP, an “open-source”
genome project based at Harvard Medical School. He is an inventor of
several technologies including telomere analysis technologies,
DNA
chip-based readout of transposon-based selections, and
universal DNA
protein-binding microarrays (PBMs).
Pete is a graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a B.S.
degree and performed neuroscience research as a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute undergraduate scholar. He earned a Ph.D. in Genetics from
Harvard Medical School performing research in Professor Church’s
laboratory. He has founded and advised multiple
technology startup companies and organizations.
He also is an active proponent of cognitive enhancement and is the
former Chairman of
The InnerSpace Foundation (IF), a nonprofit
organization dedicated to promoting and funding neuroengineering
approaches for the dramatic enhancement of memory and learning
Pete authored The Evidence-based Pursuit of Radical Life Extension [in
Religion and
the Implications of Radical Life Extension (2009) September;
Derek F.
Maher, Ph.D.; Calvin Mercer, Ph.D., Editors],
The Promise of Human Lifespan Extension and
Many factors modify the physiological response to sugary
liquids,
and coauthored
Selection analyses of insertional mutants using subgenic-resolution
arrays,
Compact, universal DNA microarrays to comprehensively determine
transcription-factor binding site specificities,
Computational identification of Cis-regulatory elements associated
with
groups of functionally related genes in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae,
The Isw2 Chromatin Remodeling Complex Represses Early Meiotic Genes
upon Recruitment by Ume6p, and
Finding DNA regulatory motifs within unaligned noncoding sequences
clustered by whole-genome mRNA quantitation.
His patents include
Methods of assaying physiological states and
Space efficient polymer sets.