Maria-Nefeli Tsaloglou
Vice President, Assay & Product Development
Nefeli is a science/technology leader with 18+ years of R&D experience in academia, government, non-profit and industry. Together with her team, they support the continued success of existing products, as well as conducting assay and product development for future offerings from Clip Health.
Nefeli read for a DHons BSc in Biochemistry and Chemistry, a PhD in Biophysical Chemistry, and completed her postdoctoral training in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton (UK). In 2014, Nefeli received a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Commission to develop low-cost, paper-based diagnostic devices at the Whitesides Research Group (Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA). She has held positions as Sensors Science Team Leader at the Sensors Development Group of the National Oceanography Centre (UK), and as Scientific Director, then CEO of non-profit Diagnostics for All (MA, USA). She was an early employee as Technical/Scientific Director at Mammoth Biosciences, where she co-invented the first generations of CRISPR-based diagnostic devices and started the prototyping/systems integration team.