uBiome added pediatric gastroenterologist Michael Docktor, MD, to its scientific advisory board.
Here are four key notes:
1. Dr. Docktor practices at Boston Children's Hospital, where he currently served as the hospital's clinical director of innovation and co-founder and lead of Hacking Pediatrics, a hackathon.
2. His professional interests include the microbiome of inflammatory bowel disease and the use of fecal microbiota transplantation in IBD and other pediatric illnesses.
3. uBiome is a leading microbial genomics company.
4. The company uses next generation high-throughput DNA sequencing technology to deliver detailed analysis of the human microbiome.