Leadership
Raphael Lehrer, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientist. Before founding GeneKey, Raphael Lehrer directed CollabRx ONE, the personalized oncology research service for CollabRx. Dr. Lehrer was the lead inventor of the methodology pioneered by CollabRx. Previously, Dr. Lehrer was the Executive Director of Strategic Alliances for Gene Logic's Drug Repositioning and Selection Business where he negotiated alliances with pharmaceutical companies to discover new therapeutic uses for their compounds that have failed in late-stage clinical trials. In earlier positions at Gene Logic, he played a key role in formulating strategy for the company; evaluating, acquiring, and integrating the preclinical CRO business; and in adding service-based offerings to Gene Logic's toxicogenomics business. Prior to joining Gene Logic, Dr. Lehrer worked at The Boston Consulting Group, where he supported top-ten pharmaceutical clients on a variety of R&D and commercial issues, including formulating licensing strategies, clinical development process design, regulatory processes, post-merger integration, and outsourcing strategies. Additionally, Dr. Lehrer was a key contributor to BCG's positioning paper on the impact of genomics on pharmaceutical R&D. Dr. Lehrer holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Yale University and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Maurice Goldhaber Prize for best theoretical physics student.
June Kinoshita, Director of Marketing and Communications
Before joining the GeneKey leadership team, June was co-Founder and Executive Editor of the Alzheimer Research Forum, the leading web resource and online community in the field of Alzheimer disease research. She also co-founderd and was Chief Information Officer of N-of-One, Inc., an innovative company in personalized cancer medicine. She was co-principal investigator of the SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) project of the Mass General Hospital neuroinformatics group. She serves on the advisory council of the M.I.T.-Harvard Medical School Division of Health Science and Technology and the advisory boards for Center for Innovative Therapies in Santa Barbara and the Memory Bridge Foundation. She has also served on the scientific advisory boards of the Telemakus Biomarkers Project and Schizophrenia Research Forum, June has had a distinguished career in journalism as an editor at Science, Scientific American, Technology Review, and worked on the creative teams for three PBS documentary films including "The Secret Life of the Brain" and “The Forgetting.” Her journalistic work has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, NPR and Oprah.