SwamyVijayan_e.022

Lab Rats to Unicorns

e.022: you’re in for,,, a treat! Swamy Vijayan is a creator at heart. he’s run three companies as founder & ceo,,, and has deep experience in bringing interdisciplinary technologies to the market. he received a Ph.D in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and immediately began his professional career working in optics, molecular biology, nanofabrication, and computation analysis at a slew of different genomic companies. eventually, he began managing research on novel sequencing technologies as nanobiology group leader at Illumina. his first company, Omniome, worked to simplify instrumentation around DNA sequencing. at his second, Plexium, he led the way in the rational design and discovery of monovalent protein degraders across a wide range of modalities. in this episode, Dr. Vijayan discusses his third & current venture – Zafrens, polymer science, dna sequencing, and more.