Nitin Rajan

Dr. Nitin Rajan is Director of Research and Technology at Avails Medical. He leads the biosensor research and development efforts at Avails. He guides the design and manufacturing of the Avails sensor technology as well as sensor optimization and algorithm development. Nitin is an accomplished physicist with more than a decade of experience developing biosensor technologies and platforms, focusing on the interface between electronics, chemistry and biology.

He obtained his PhD in Applied Physics from Yale University where his doctoral thesis work was centered around the fabrication of biological field effect transistor (BioFET) sensors applied to cancer biomarker detection. His postdoctoral fellowship work at the University of California Santa Barbara was on microfluidic biosensors. Nitin's work has been published in several high profile journals with over 1700 citations.