Pankaj Singhal's Biography

Pankaj Singhal, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Operations, Biomatrica

Dr. Singhal joined Biomatrica in 2012 and directed the launch of Biomatrica’s custom stabilization business. He oversees Biomatrica’s corporate partnerships, custom services and operations. He has over 15 years of experience in the diagnostics industry for commercializing technologies, launching FDA cleared products, taking a company public and being acquired. Prior to joining Biomatrica, he was an Executive Officer and Sr. VP at GenMark Diagnostics as it completed an IPO in 2010. Before that, he was the Chief Operating Officer for Osmetech Molecular Diagnostics, and prior to that he held multiple management positions with Motorola Life Sciences. Dr. Singhal was also the Founding Managing Director of the Innovation Center at the UCLA’s School of Medicine, and a board member of the Southern California Biomedical Council. He has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Riverside, and conducted postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley. He is a Six Sigma black belt, and has numerous publications and patents in the areas of microfluidics, DNA sequencing, and bioelectronic detection.