Paul Kasili, PhD
Vice President & Founder
Biotechnology
Dr. Kasili has 21 years combined experience in academia, biomedical research, the biotech industry, higher education (STEM), and the non-profit sector. He received his B.A., majoring in Chemistry, with a minor Biochemistry, at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA and his Ph.D., in the Life Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-ORNL) Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology (GST), Knoxville, TN. Dr. Kasili completed two post-docs at ORNL in Nanobiosensors and Biomedical Imaging and at the Brigham and Women’s/Harvard Medical School in method development for Nano-Imaging applications. He worked in the biotech industry as a Sr. Application Scientist for Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (now Perkin Elmer), as a Field Application Scientist for MDS Analytical Technologies (now Molecular Devices) and worked in the non-profit sector as the Director of Exchange and Training for Seeding Labs. He has also completed two National Science Foundation (NSF) research experiences for teachers at Suffolk University, Wellesley College, and MiT.