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Dr. Bhagwandin began his career in biotechnology during the 1980’s working in a medical-research hospital using electron spin resonance to investigate the neutrophil burst. Following this effort, Dr. Bhagwandin worked at Eli Lilly and Company as a Central Nervous System Physiologist. At Lilly he designed and conducted pharmaceutical studies to evaluate therapeutic compounds and served as a liaison to the FDA for CNS side effects of compounds sold into Japan. While at Lilly, Bryon also developed an assay for screening the efficacy of CNS targeted compounds.
During the 1990’s Dr. Bhagwandin pursued a doctorate in biomedical engineering focusing his efforts on developing an integrated optical chemical sensor. This work provided experience in integrated optics, semiconductor fabrication, clean room processing, optical signal detection, and digital signal processing. During the 1990’s Dr. Bhagwandin also functioned as Director of Software Development for Biopreserve Corporation, a biotech start-up. At Biopreserve, Bryon was a senior member of the development team commercializing an organ perfusion workstation with intended use in human organ transport. He was responsible for designing the user interface and creating the source code for all systems control and monitoring.
In 2000, Dr. Bhagwandin joined Stratos Product Development Group. At Stratos, Bryon functioned as a bioengineer, designer, systems engineer, and project manager. He was responsible for managing the development of several biomedical products including an industrial DNA synthesizer, a bio-aerosol collector, and an automated pathology reader. Dr. Bhagwandin has managed large multidisciplinary development teams including mechanical, electrical, software engineers as well as biochemists and assay developers.
Dr. Bhagwandin left Stratos to join another biotech startup company as the Vice President of Engineering. During his time as Engineering VP, Dr. Bhagwandin secured SBIR II grant funding, managed development partners, carried out proof of principal studies and provided technical leadership in all development efforts (budgets, schedules, facilities, test plans, hiring, contracts, etc.). Dr. Bhagwandin has a demonstrated ability to lead a diverse team of large industry employees, senior government scientists and contract designers to success. His efforts as Engineering VP took the company from a technology license-holder to an acquisition target. The company is currently negotiating terms for acquisition.
Currently, Dr. Bhagwandin serves as Director of Engineering and Systems Integration for LabNow Inc. Dr. Bhagwandin has more then 20 years experience working in biomedical engineering and medical diagnostics. His expertise and experience include medical-instrument systems, biosensors, biomedical optics, program management, product development, software system-control, and medical graphical-user-interface design. Dr. Bhagwandin brings this experience and expertise to LabNow. He is responsible for development, integration and manufacture of LabNow’s biochips, detection chemistries, analyzer, optical system, control software, and image analysis algorithms.
National Instruments recognized Dr. Bhagwandin with the Outstanding Application -Biomedical award for the software he developed on the isolated organ perfusion workstation. R&D magazine awarded the R&D 100 Award-Environmental to a product that resulted from a development effort led by Dr. Bhagwandin (bio-aerosol collector).
Dr. Bhagwandin has a BS in Physics from Indiana University, a MS in Physics from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Washington. | 