Name Mostafa Ronaghi | Role Researcher | |
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Education Royal Institute of Technology (1998) Books Array-Based Pyrosequencing Technology: Chapter 2 from Genome Sequencing Technology & Algorithms Organizations founded Nextbio, Avantome Inc, Biotage, ParAllele Bioscience Similar People Pal Nyren, Ronald W Davis, Nader Pourmand, Helmy Eltoukhy, Juan G Santiago |
1/30/13 - Mostafa Ronaghi, "Bridging the gap between science, innovation and market"
Mostafa Ronaghi (born 1968) is an Iranian molecular biologist, specializing in DNA sequencing methodology. He earned his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 1998.
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As of 2008, he is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Illumina. Prior to this position, he was a principal investigator and Senior Research Associate at the Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University, focusing on developing analytical techniques for molecular diagnostics.
He is principal investigator for several grants including grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health for the development of array-based Pyrosequencing.
He is a co-inventor (with Pal Nyren) of pyrosequencing technology and co-founded Pyrosequencing AB in 1997 (renamed to Biotage in 2003), and co-invented Molecular Inversion Probe assay and co-founded ParAllele BioScience to develop this multiplexed technology for genetic testing. ParAllele was acquired by Affymetrix in May 2005. In 2005, he co-founded NextBio, a search engine for life science data that was acquired by Illumina in 2013. He also serves on the board of directors of IntegenX and Aurora Biofuels. In 2008 he co-founded Avantome, a DNA sequencing company acquired by Illumina July 2008.
Publications
Among his approximately 50 peer-reviewed journal articles are the publications describing Pyrosequencing and Molecular Inversion Probe assays and other techniques:
He also holds about 20 patents.