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]

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-Fischer).[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.

Awards

  • 2001: Second place prize for Technologies in the Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge.[16]
  • 2015: NIH winner of the NIH's “Follow that Cell Challenge”.[17]
  • 2017: NIH as 2017 First Prize winner of the NIH's “Follow that Cell Challenge”.[18]

References

  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.
  5. 1 2 3 "Colloquium Speaker: Nader Pourmand; Professor, Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz". Bioengineering. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  6. 1 2 "Nader Pourmand and Ion Torrent | Genomics Institute". Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  7. ↑ Stephens, Tim. "COVID Catalyst Fund supports work on rapid serology test at UC Santa Cruz". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  8. ↑ "Yokogawa Electric's Acquisition of BioStinger Technology | Genomics Institute". Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  9. ↑ Stephens, Tim; Writer 459-2495, Staff. "Magnetic nanotags allow sensitive detection of cancer biomarkers". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2021-06-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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.
  11. ↑ "Point-of-Care Molecular Detection for Pathogen Testing" (PDF). Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  12. ↑ Actis, Paolo; Mak, Andy C.; Pourmand, Nader (2010). "Functionalized nanopipettes: toward label-free, single cell biosensors". Bioanalytical Reviews. 1 (2): 177–185. doi:10.1007/s12566-010-0013-y. ISSN 1867-2086. PMC 2918800. PMID 20730113.
  13. ↑ Bulbul, Gonca; Chaves, Gepoliano; Olivier, Joseph; Ozel, Rifat Emrah; Pourmand, Nader (2018-06-06). "Nanopipettes as Monitoring Probes for the Single Living Cell: State of the Art and Future Directions in Molecular Biology". Cells. 7 (6): 55. doi:10.3390/cells7060055. ISSN 2073-4409. PMC 6024992. PMID 29882813.
  14. ↑ Brown, Sarah (2014-01-06). "Interrogating single cells". Nature Nanotechnology: 1. doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.307. ISSN 1748-3395.
  15. ↑ Laborde, C.; Pittino, F.; Verhoeven, H. A.; Lemay, S. G.; Selmi, L.; Jongsma, M. A.; Widdershoven, F. P. (2015). "Real-time imaging of microparticles and living cells with CMOS nanocapacitor arrays". Nature Nanotechnology. 10 (9): 791–795. Bibcode:2015NatNa..10..791L. doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.163. hdl:11380/1163314. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 26237346.
  16. ↑ "Awards & Honors Received by PSA Members". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  17. ↑ Stephens, Tim. "Nanopipette technique earns prize in NIH 'Follow that Cell' challenge". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  18. ↑ Stephens, Tim. "Nanopipette technology wins first place in NIH 'Follow that Cell' challenge". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
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