Hashem Akhavan-Tafti, President and CSO of AhuraTech, LLC and Co-Founder of 1 for 2 Education Foundation

Abstract

The company founder and President, Hashem Akhavan-Tafti, Ph.D., was formerly the Vice President of Research for Beckman Coulter’s Immunoassay and Molecular Diagnostics Business Group. Hashem managed a multi-disciplinary team of research scientists in the discovery of innovative detection technologies for clinical diagnostics and life science research applications and holds more than 80 U.S. patents and more than 100 international patents related to chemiluminescent substrates used in medical diagnostic assays, and these inventions have had a profound impact on the field of chemiluminescence. Substrates he invented are used worldwide in automated systems for the chemiluminescent detection of alkaline phosphatase conjugates and in ultrasensitive assays in life-science research and human identity testing. His teams have refined methods for chemiluminescent enhancement, developed applications for DNA and protein detection using chemiluminescence, and developed methods for nucleic acid purification. Now leading the AhuraTech team, his newest patents in open-circuit electroluminescence are producing outstanding results in a broad range of fields.

Join us on Monday, April 13 at 1:30 PM in Stephens Room (3503 Thomas Hall) and ZOOM for the Genetics and Genomics Seminar Series. This event will be held in person in Stephens Room (3503 Thomas Hall) and on Zoom.

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If you are interested in meeting with this speaker, contact host Anna Stepanova (stepanova@ncsu.edu).