Dr. Athena Guo
CEO
MicroSurfaces, Inc
USA
Biography
Athena Guo received her PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. After postdoctoral training at NIH and Washington University School of Medicine, and briefly joining the research faculty at University of Minnesota, she founded MicroSurfaces, Inc and has served as its CEO since. She was a member on several NIH study sessions, author of 30 scientific papers and patents, and PI on multiple SBIR awards from NIH and NSF. She has been responsible for the development and launch of MicroSurfaces’ product lines, e.g. the ZeroBkg® surfaces, FluidArray surfaces, etc.– to serve the biomedical research community.
Research Interest
Biochips and microarrays for ultra-sensitive bioanalysis and biomarker discovery.