Maithreyan Srinivasan
Chief Technology Officer
Health care
WaferGen Bio systems
United States of America
Biography
Maithreyan Srinivasan (Srini) joined WaferGen in January 2014 as a technology consultant and was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in May 2014. Earlier in his career, Srini worked for CuraGen and Roche 454 in a series of R&D roles of increasing responsibility to help launch three generations of 454 sequencers. He also co-led the first whole human genome sequencing effort on a 2nd generation DNA sequencer. Prior to joining WaferGen, Srini held the position of Senior Director of Genomics R&D at Agilent Technologies, where he lead global R&D efforts in Oligo Library Synthesis, Microarray applications and technologies, Targeted sequencing using SureSelect/Haloplex, Bioreagents associated with cloning, mutagenesis, PCR, qPCR and associated application software (SureDesign, Cytogenomics and SureCall). Srini holds a Ph.D in Biochemistry from Colorado State University and BSc and MSc degrees from University of Madras and University of Poona (India), respectively.
Research Interest
Health care
