Dr Cotter received his doctorate in Biomedical Sciences from the Department of Human Genetics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics in both Clinical Cytogenetics and Clinical Molecular Genetics, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco, a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Fellow of the Faculty of Science Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.

 

Dr Cotter is a Principal of ResearchDx, Inc., the premier Contract Diagnostics Organization, Contract Manufacturing, Clinical Laboratory and Consulting Company specializing in Companion Diagnostics. He is also Laboratory Director of Pacific Diagnostics Clinical Laboratory, Irvine, CA.

 

Dr Cotter’s experience includes Vice President and Laboratory Director at Biocept Inc. in San Diego, Laboratory Director at the Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory in San Diego, Laboratory Director at Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics in Irvine, Director of Molecular Cytogenetics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Director of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics at the Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland CA, and Director of Advanced Molecular Diagnostics at US Labs in Irvine, CA. Dr Cotter has published extensively in the areas of cytogenetics, molecular genetics and prenatal diagnosis.

Clinical application of Next-Generation sequencing, Companion diagnostics and personalized medicine, Molecular oncology