Dr. J. Michael Ramsey holds the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chair at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. In addition to his appointment in the Department of Chemistry, he is also a member of the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences in the UNC-CH School of Medicine. Dr. Ramsey is also the director of the UNC Center for Biomedical Microtechnologies. His present research interests include microfabricated chemical instrumentation, micro- and nanofluidics, single molecule DNA sequencing, single cell assays, point-of-care clinical diagnostic devices, and highly miniaturized mass spectrometry. Dr. Ramsey is the sole scientific founder of Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ:CALP), later renamed Caliper Life Sciences and acquired by PerkinElmer in 2011. Caliper is the leading commercial supplier of microfluidic technologies; tools primarily used in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He is also the scientific founder of 908 Devices, a company developing revolutionary handheld mass spectrometry instrumentation.