Nader Pourmand

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Nader Pourmand is a Professor of Biomolecular Engineering leading the Biosensors and Bioelectrical Technology Group at the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz, Baskin School of Engineering. [1]

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He has been published in Cancer Research , [2] PLoS ONE , [3] ACS, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . [4]

Pourmand received his PhD at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. [5] While he was at Stanford, his lab developed the science underlying Ion Torrent, a benchtop next-gen sequencing system (acquired by Life Technologies, then by Thermo Fisher). [6] He has been a cofounder of start-ups Pinpoint Science inc., [7] BioStinger Inc. (now part of Yokogawa, Japan), [5] [8] MagArray Inc., [9] [5] and contributed to others including Nvigen, [10] Ion Torrent, [6] Bioprobix, and Pathogenix. [11]

He has developed technology based on functionalized nanopipettes, which can be used to study genomics and proteomics of individual living cells at nanoscale. [12] [13] This nanopipette technology was described in Nature Nanotechnology as a major advance in Single cell genomics and was recognized by the NIH for the development of this technology for interrogating single living cells. [14] [15] This same nanopipette technology is the basis for Pinpoint Science Inc's handheld diagnostic platform for detecting microbial pathogens.

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  1. ↑ "Nader Pourmand | Jack Baskin School of Engineering". www.soe.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  2. ↑ "Cancer Research: 67 (13)". Cancer Research. 67 (13). 2007-07-01. ISSN   0008-5472.
  3. ↑ "PLOS ONE: Infectious diseases". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  4. ↑ Pourmand, Nader; Karhanek, Miloslav; Persson, Henrik H. J.; Webb, Chris D.; Lee, Thomas H.; Zahradníková, Alexandra; Davis, Ronald W. (2006-04-25). "Direct electrical detection of DNA synthesis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (17): 6466–6470. Bibcode:2006PNAS..103.6466P. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601184103 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   1458907 . PMID   16614066.
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  7. ↑ Stephens, Tim. "COVID Catalyst Fund supports work on rapid serology test at UC Santa Cruz". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
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  10. ↑ Chaves, Gepoliano; Stanley, John; Pourmand, Nader (2019-08-23). "Mutant Huntingtin Affects Diabetes and Alzheimer's Markers in Human and Cell Models of Huntington's Disease". Cells. 8 (9): 962. doi: 10.3390/cells8090962 . ISSN   2073-4409. PMC   6769852 . PMID   31450785.
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