Dr. Lander is the director of the Broad Institute, professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Golub is the founding director of the Broad Institute's Cancer Program and the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Garraway is an assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, a faculty member of Dana-Farber's Center for Cancer Genome Discovery, leader of the OncoMap project, and an associate member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Meyerson is director of the Center for Cancer Genome Discovery at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, a principal investigator of The Cancer Genome Atlas project, and a senior associate member of the Broad Institute.

Also assisting Foundation in its mission is a board of directors made up of industry veterans with proven track records for building exceptional life sciences companies, including Alexis Borisy, founding chief executive officer of Foundation Medicine; Mark Levin, a long-time personalized medicine visionary, partner at Third Rock Ventures and former chief executive officer of Millennium Pharmaceuticals; David Schenkein, M.D., chief executive officer of Agios Pharmaceuticals and former leader of Genentech's BioOncology development portfolio; and Robert Tepper, M.D., partner at Third Rock Ventures, distinguished scientist and former president of research and development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

"Personalized treatment has been a dream of many people working in the cancer field over the last 20 years," said Mr. Levin. "With dramatic advances made during that time in biological understanding, genomic technologies and targeted therapies, we believe the time has come to fulfill the promise to patients. We're thrilled to be working with this outstanding group of people to build the company that will make it happen."

SOURCE Foundation Medicine