Alan Fox earned his MS degree in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was first exposed to functional genomics while working with microarrays and next-generation sequencing at the Next-Generation Sequencing Core. He continued his career supervising and managing clinical molecular-genetics laboratories at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Currently, he is working as a Technical Application Scientist at GENEWIZ, focusing on custom NGS project support and new solution development.