TEDMEDLiveBologna – Nicolò Manaresi – From Rare-Cells to Personalized Medicine

Nicolò Manaresi is co-founder of Silicon Biosystems and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding Silicon Biosystems, Dr. Manaresi was a research fellow at the University of Bologna and a long-time consultant to STMicroelectronics in the field of innovative sensors based on Microelectronic technologies. He received a Degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. In 1996 he spent one year as a Research assistantat the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-author of more than 40 scientific papers, one of which – “A CMOS Chip for Individual Cell Manipulation and Detection” – received the IEEE 2003 International Solid Circuit Conference Jan Van Vessem Award for outstanding European papers. He is a co-inventor behind more than 30 European and US Patents.

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