An Interview with Steven M. Watkins,Ph.D. President and Chief Scientific Officer,Lipomics Technologies,Inc.

Dr. Steven M. Watkins is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Lipomics Technologies, Inc., in West Sacramento, California. Lipomics is developing tools for drug discovery and personalized health management using technologies for lipid metabolite analysis and data interpretation. Dr. Watkins has published many peer-reviewed papers on lipid metabolism and metabolomics. He did his postdoctoral training at the University of California at Davis with Bruce German. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 1998 studying the effects of dietary fatty acids on mitochondrial membrane metabolism and function. Dr. Watkins received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1993.