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  • Alex Aravanis M.D.

Alex Aravanis M.D.

Board Member at ONI

Alex Aravanis MD PhD is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Moonwalk Biosciences, and as a Board Member at ONI. With extensive experience in biotechnology and research, Alex has held advisory roles at Foresite Labs and Myst Therapeutics, and previously served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Illumina, where Alex led the development of over 50 innovative products in various fields, including oncology and infectious diseases. As a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of GRAIL, Alex played a pivotal role in the company, which was acquired for approximately $7 billion in 2021. Alex’s educational background includes an MD and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

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ONI

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ONI is a pioneer of next generation super-resolution microscopy, making this advanced technology accessible to new generations of researchers. The Nanoimager, the world's first benchtop sized super-resolution microscope, delivers a step change in usability and precision. The microscope offers easy access to a range of super-resolution techniques including dSTORM and PALM, as well as smFRET, single-particle tracking and confocal. The company's achievements have been recognised by FastTrack100 who named ONI on their 2018 list of 10 Disruptors to Watch and ONI won Best Business Start-up at the 2018 IOP Awards. More and more life science researchers and pharma companies are taking an interest in ONI and it now has customers using its products in leading laboratories across the globe, including the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. ONI has a restless enthusiasm to make the world a better place. Our ambition is to bring super-resolution fluorescence imaging to a new community of researchers and we are removing barriers to make science more effective, accessible and affordable. We have a vision for making high tech science available to anyone, anywhere, from the research bench to your doctor’s office.


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