GENOMICS' FATEFUL CONVERGENCE: TECH + LIFE SCIENCES + GOVERNMENT Can partnering keep pace with science moving so fast it's leaving Moore's Law in the dust? High tech and DNA sequencing pioneer Alex Dickinson talks about successes, failures, and untold possibilities in this mega-collision of industries and sectors By Cynthia B. Hanson Alex Dickinson, PhD, has been a thinker and a tinker as far back as he can remember. His early years in Sydney, Australia, were spent futzing with mechanics on the family boat. Early in his career there was a stint at Bell Labs, where he worked on smartphone camera and fingerprint technologies. That evolved into fiddling around with strands of DNA in the world of genetic sequencing. 17 Q2 * 2017 | STRATEGIC ALLIANCE MAGAZINE