At Cornell, Hill took a course in the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program, where students from all over Cornell learn new-business development. Through the course he met Ganem, who provided contacts with management expertise and investment capital. Hill began assembling the expertise needed, too. Gene Network Science's co-founder and chief operating officer. Part of the operation is devising the equations mathematically describing enzyme interactions in cells.
Programmers develop software to model the network interactions.
And the company plans to lease laboratory space to conduct actual experiments seeking to validate its predictions to prospective drug-maker partners. Ron Maimon, Jeff Fox, Shine Tu and Bruce Ganem. Kevin Brown, Sam Browning and Poney Carpenter. The Ithaca Journal. All rights reserved.