Sammy Datwani, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Systemic Bio is focused on the development of micro physiological systems harnessing 3D bio printed vascularized organ-on-chip models with state-of-the-art hydrogel technology integrated with human cells and flow to drive therapeutic insights for drug discovery.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Invited Advisory Board Member - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2019 - 2022 and 2023 - 2026 Terms)

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Nominated and Elected to the SLAS Board of Directors (2019 - 2022 Term)SLAS is a non-profit global community of more than 20,000 scientists—from academia, government and industry—collectively focused on leveraging the power of technology to achieve scientific objectives. We consider a primary part of our mission to unite great minds in science and technology for the advancement of all research.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Privately funded start up focused on machine learning algorithms (MLA) and artificial intelligence (AI) for unbiased life science experimentation. Bioz is on its way to becoming the industry standard rating and recommendation engine for life science products used in academic and biopharma experiments.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Privately funded start up focused on the next generation of digital PCR enabling cancer recurrence monitoring. COMBINATI is part of the Stanford StartX accelerator. COMBINATI has a best-in-class proprietary injection molded consumable, with open source reagents and a unique single instrument platform for democratizing digital PCR and digital qPCR. Applications: rare mutant quantification, precision quantification of lung cancer genes, SMA, absolute viral quantitation for COVID-19 and others.

Strategy and consulting and expert witness services in the life sciences tools, molecular diagnostic, point-of-care medical devices, chemical sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences utilizing my expertise in microfluidics, systems engineering and nanotechnology for bio instrumentation, high volume consumables development, interfacial transport, fluid mechanics, reagent development, heat and mass transport, thin films, coatings and surface chemistry.

Pleasanton, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Design, develop and launch new products to expand the market capability of acoustic liquid dispensing. I direct, manage and lead internal and external research programs for R&D, systems, scientific and advanced developments to create new instruments and new products (plastic consumables and reagents) and other novel capabilities for the company. My unique skill set combines understanding fluid dynamics on the micro- and nanoscale, the knowledge of interactions of system components, interfacial transport, microscale reactors, electrostatics, solution and polymer chemistry, genomics, proteomics, single-cell analysis, advanced applications, instrument engineering, laboratory automation, modeling, microarraying, analytical methods and biological instrumentation.- Manage R&D Staff and multiple project teams- Technical leadership to develop new business development opportunities- Develop intellectual property and corporate strategy- Envisioned and designed new instrument products, new instrument product capabilities and new consumables products that have been taken from the concept stage to the launch stage.- Enabled acoustic liquid handling for aqueous capabilities, generating key strategies for understanding technical roadblocks and delivering solutions to grow market share 5 fold.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Graduate Level - Microfluidics and Nanotechnology for the Bioengineer Graduate Level - Advanced Chemical Kinetics and Reactor DesignGraduate Level - Advanced Transport Phenomena

Lead microfluidics engineer responsible for R&D, design, systems integration and project management of a novel microfabricated High Performance Liquid Chromatography (cHiPLC) based system.- Invented, designed and validated all components of the next generation HPLC system which includes on-chip valving, injection, sample preparation, columns (for separation), electrokinetic flow control, fluid delivery, filtration and detection (UV based).- Supervised and directed the R&D activities of 5 scientists and engineers.

Key member of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists to develop and manufacture the LibraryCard from concept to product. Coordinated and led research efforts to develop new microfluidic and microarray devices for high throughput drug screening applications (HTS).- Invented, designed, characterized, and tested novel surface coatings that were utilized in a high throughput microarray-based drug screening application coupled to microfluidic devices to carry out both fluorogenic and kinase (mobility shift) assays for key pharmaceutical customers with 10,000 compounds on an SBS microplate footprint.- Obtained project management experience through defining, assigning and implementing critical studies for the scale up of prototype processes and equipment for a group of 5 engineers and scientists. Wrote documentation (SOPs) for procedures and protocols for complete transfer to manufacturing. - Supported Bioanalyzer (now the Agilent Bioanalyzer) product pipeline with key DOE for microfluidic chip investigation of materials issues (polymers, glass) and determined key surface chemistry solutions.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering