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February 21, 2021 / 2021 Power 50

2021 Power 50: 49. Charles Lee & Eric Rosow

Photo | Pablo Robles Charles Lee hopes to lead groundbreaking research at Jackson Laboratory in Farmington.

While New Haven is known as the state’s bioscience epicenter, Greater Hartford has its share of successful healthcare-related companies. Two leaders in this arena are accomplished geneticist Charles Lee, of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, and Eric Rosow, CEO of Diameter Health, both of which are based in Farmington.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that hit Connecticut back in March 2020, Jackson Lab’s Farmington operations, led by Lee, have been key to the state’s response effort.

Jackson Lab, or “Jax” for short, was an integral part of Connecticut’s early in-state diagnostic testing efforts, and Lee also served on Gov. Ned Lamont’s reopening advisory committee that helped lay out the staggered easing of restrictions that took place last spring and summer.

Lee and his team are now conducting more than 120,000 coronavirus tests per week, a number that includes newly emerged and more infectious COVID strains that recently reached Connecticut and are anticipated to lead to a third spike in cases as spring approaches.

Lee, who left his faculty position at Harvard University in 2013 to lead Jackson Lab as its scientific director, today oversees hundreds of scientists in a Farmington facility located on UConn Health’s campus and built with the help of nearly $300 million in state funds.

Rosow is an entrepreneur who leads one of Greater Hartford’s most successful medtech companies.

Eric Rosow

Diameter Health raised $18 million in new venture funding late last year as it continues to grow its main product, Fusion, which parses and analyzes more than 225 million clinical documents for clients including health information exchanges, the Veterans Administration, state governments, large health plans, health IT vendors and life insurance companies to help them consolidate and better assess that data.

Rosow is no newcomer to growing successful tech companies. He started Diameter about six years after selling his software firm, Premise Corp., to Atlanta-based medtech firm Eclipsys Corp. for $38.5 million.

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Anonymous
February 24, 2021

Congrats Eric. Fantastic work!

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