Nader Pourmand is a Professor of Biomolecular Engineering leading the Biosensors and Bioelectrical Technology Group at the

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at the University of California Santa Cruz,

. He has been published in '' Cancer Research'', '' PLoS ONE'', ''ACS'', and the '' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences''. Pourmand received his PhD at the Karolinska Institute,

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. While he was at

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, his lab developed the science underlying Ion Torrent, a benchtop next-gen sequencing system (acquired by

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, then by

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). He has been a cofounder of start-ups Pinpoint Science inc., BioStinger Inc. (now part of Yokogawa, Japan), MagArray Inc., and contributed to others including Nvigen, Ion Torrent, Bioprobix, and Pathogenix. He has developed technology based on functionalized

nanopipette Nanopipettes are pipettes in nanometer 330px, Different lengths as in respect to the molecular scale. The nanometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American and B ...

s, which can be used to study

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

and

proteomics Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replication of DNA. In ...

of individual living cells at nanoscale. This nanopipette technology was described in '' Nature Nanotechnology'' as a major advance in

Single cell genomics Single-cell sequencing examines the sequence information from individual cells with optimized next-generation sequencing technologies, providing a higher resolution of cellular differences and a better understanding of the function of an individual ...

and was recognized by the NIH for the development of this technology for interrogating single living cells. This same nanopipette technology is the basis for Pinpoint Science Inc's handheld diagnostic platform for detecting

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Awards

* 2001: Second place prize for Technologies in the Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge. * 2015: NIH winner of the NIH's “Follow that Cell Challenge”. * 2017: NIH as 2017 First Prize winner of the NIH's “Follow that Cell Challenge”.

References

External links

UCSC faculty biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pourmand, Nader Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American molecular biologists University of California, Santa Cruz faculty American company founders Stanford University alumni Iranian expatriate academics Karolinska Institute alumni