Dr. Gingeras received his Ph.D. in Biology from New York University in 1976. Subsequently, he received his postdoctoral training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Roberts as an American Cancer Society and National Institutes of Health Fellow (1976-1979). After this postdoctoral training period, Dr. Gingeras became a Staff Scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1979-1983). He then accepted the position of Senior Scientist at the Salk Institute Biotechnology/Industrial Associates (SIBIA) (1983-1988) and became the Assistant Laboratory Director and Director of Molecular Diagnostics at SIBIA (1988-1990). In 1990 Dr. Gingeras became Director of Life Sciences Research Laboratory, Baxter Healthcare, Inc. (1990-1993) while keeping an appointment as Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, (1991-1994). Currently he is Vice President Biological Sciences at Affymetrix, Inc and a principle investigator in the basic research division of Affymetrix, Affymetrix Laboratories (1993-present). He is the author and coauthor of 100 manuscripts and 13 patents.

Dr. Gingeras’ research is focused on studies concerned with the organization and regulation of transcription across the eukaryotic genomes. With his colleagues and collaborators maps for the sites of transcription and the regulatory regions controlling these transcripts have been made for human, mouse, fly and worm genomes. Dr. Gingeras’ group was the first to determine that the size of the non-protein coding collection of transcripts for most genomes was as least as large as the number of protein coding transcripts. More recently Dr. Gingeras and coworkers have focused their efforts on the various functional roles non-coding (nc)-RNAs play in eukaryotic cells and how disregulation of these nc-transcripts related to several disease states.