Erik Gentalen

Erik is the inventor of Intabio’s microfluidic-based innovations, and is responsible for advancing the technology and the overall development of the BlazeTM system. Erik has spent over 16 years developing microfluidic tools for the analysis of proteins and nucleic acids. Prior to Intabio, Erik was the Director of Systems Integration at ProteinSimple where he led the R&D team developing the Simple Western capillary immunoassay from invention to launch, and also led product support for the iCE3 capillary-based IEF system. Prior to ProteinSimple, he was the Program Manager at Caliper Life Sciences, where he led the system integration for a microfluidic research system, developed chip designs for customer applications, and managed application development collaborations with pharmaceutical partners. Erik was also an early employee at Affymetrix and Combimatrix, where his responsibilities included designing instrumentation, developing synthesis methods, managing the DNA array production facility, and collaborating on novel array applications. Erik is also a registered patent agent.