Proven entrepreneurs, academics & business leaders
Our team
Founder & CEO
Raj Mohanty, PhD
Dr. Raj Mohanty is a founder of FemtoDx. Among his numerous work experiences, he has served as a researcher at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center and California Institute of Technology, and a faculty member at Boston University. He holds a PhD in quantum physics from University of Maryland. Prior to founding FemtoDx, Dr. Mohanty was the founder and the CEO of Sand 9, a semiconductor chip company that went on to raise around $70 million and was acquired by Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI).
Senior Advisor
Heiner Dreismann, PhD
Dr. Heiner Dreismann, PhD, is the former President and CEO of Roche Molecular Systems, and head of Global Business of Roche Diagnostics. He’s widely credited for early adoption of PCR technique. He serves on the board of a number of public and private companies.
Chief Medical Advisor
William Denman, MD
Dr. William Denman, MD, is a clinician at the Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston and the former Chief Medical Officer of GE Healthcare and Covidien (acquired by Medtronic for $42 billion).
Senior Advisor
Patrick Anquetil, PhD
Dr. Patrick Anquetil is the founder and CEO of Portal Instruments. Prior to founding Portal Instruments, from 2009 to 2012, he was co-founder and director of strategic planning for SynapDx. Dr. Anquetil holds a PhD in BioInstrumentation from MIT, an MBA from Harvard University, and a master's degree from the ETH in Zurich and the University of Tokyo.
Senior Advisor
Stan Lapidus
Stan Lapidus is an executive and founder with over three decades of experience in the medical diagnostics space. Stan was the founder and CEO of SynapDx, an autism diagnostics company; Helicos Biosciences (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life sciences company; EXACT Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS), a colorectal cancer diagnostics company; CYTYC (NYSE: CYTC), a cervical cancer diagnostics company. Stan holds academic appointments at MIT and a fellowship at American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering.
VP of Engineering
John Du, PhD
Dr. John Du oversees device engineering development and manages silicon sensor fabrication at Global Foundries. Dr. Du received his PhD in electrical engineering at Case Western University and postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology. Dr. Du has over 15 years of experience in working in medical device industry.
Founder
Shyam Erramilli, PhD
Dr. Shyam Erramilli is a founder of FemtoDx. Dr. Erramilli is a professor of biomedical engineering, physics and photonics at Boston University. Prior to joining Boston University, he was a faculty member at Princeton University. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University and Cambridge University. His research is in the field of biological physics, focusing on femtosecond laser spectroscopy and nanoscale physics in biological systems. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Chief Clinical Advisor
S.V. Mahadevan, MD
Dr. Mahadevan is a clinician at Stanford Medicine with a focus on emergency medicine, and a professor at Stanford University. He has served as the founding chair of Department of Emergency Medicine and director of Global Affairs and Strategy at Stanford University School of Medicine / Stanford Health Care.