9 years in industry developing assays and bioinformatics tools, including portable molecular diagnostics devices and a multi-omic protein and nucleic acid quantification platform.
Nucleic acid technical lead on an XPRIZE-winning, CE-marked COVID-19 diagnostic, earning a 1.2M award and beating over 230 competitors; orchestrated a 10X platform-wide improvement in assay sensitivity.
Authored two bioinformatics suites for PCR LAMP primer design, including a LAMP-focused algorithm uniquely capable of handling highly-mutated targets; utilized to create primers for over 100 molecular diagnostic assays.
Developed multiplexed immuno-PCR assays that combine antibody-DNA conjugates with encoded magnetic beads, achieving 10-100x improvements in detection limits for cytokine and oncology biomarkers.