Lori Arakaki

Lori Arakaki, PhD is a founder of Opticyte, and her vision and leadership as CEO steadily drive the company towards demonstration of clinical benefit. As CEO, Lori has secured angel and venture capital funding in addition to significant NIH small business grant funding. Lori has over 20 years of experience pioneering new optical spectroscopy and multivariate analysis technology to measure oxygen saturation that will revolutionize the standard of care for critically ill patients and provide breakthrough tools that reduce deaths caused by organ failure. Lori earned her PhD in bioengineering from the University of Washington.