Leadership

Christopher MLS Bouton, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer
Email: chris@entagen.com


Dr. Bouton received his BA in Neuroscience (Magna Cum Laude) from Amherst College in 1996 and his Ph.D in Molecular Neurobiology from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Between 2001 and 2004 Dr. Bouton worked as a computational biologist at LION Bioscience Research Inc. and Aveo Pharmaceuticals, leading the microarray data analysis functions at both companies. In 2004 he accepted the position of Head of Integrative Data Mining for Pfizer and led a group of Ph.D. level scientists conducting research in the areas of computational biology, systems biology, knowledge engineering, software development, machine learning and large-scale ‘omics data analysis. While at Pfizer, Dr. Bouton conceived of and implemented an organization-wide wiki called Pfizerpedia for which he won the prestigious 2007 William E. Upjohn Award in Innovation. In 2008 Dr. Bouton assumed the position of CEO at Entagen (http://www.entagen.com), a biotechnology company that provides computational research, analysis and custom software development services for biomedical organizations. Dr. Bouton is an author on over a dozen scientific papers and book chapters and his work has been covered in a number of industry news articles.