Helmy Eltoukhy

Helmy Eltoukhy is an American scientist and a businessperson who co-founded startups Avantome and Guardant Health. Guardant Health was founded to pioneer non-invasive liquid biopsy approaches for cancer diagnosis, monitoring, personalized medicine treatment, and research.

He is best known for his contributions to genomics, semiconductor DNA sequencing, and personalized medicine. Avantome was acquired by Illumina in 2008. Avantome was founded to develop and commercialize semiconductor-based DNA sequencing during the race for the $1,000 genome.