Sudhir Sinha

Dr. Sinha holds the position of adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Dr. Sinha has over 36 years of experience in biochemical research, Cancer Biomarkers research, and human DNA genotyping and assay commercialization. Previously, Dr. Sihha founded InnoGenomics, and was also the Founder, President and Lab Director of ReliaGene Technologies. As President and Chief Scientist at ReliaGene, one of Dr. Sinha’s major achievements was designing and producing the first commercial Y-STR DNA testing kit. Dr Sinha was awarded an export promotion award by the US Department of Commerce for the worldwide export of this novel DNA test kit. Dr. Sinha built Reliagene from a two-employee company into a 90-employee company and successfully sold ReliaGene, in 2007, to Orchid-Cellmark which is now part of Laboratory Corporation of America. Dr. Sinha earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and completed his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Miami, Florida.