Umer Sayeed-Shah, MD FACS FAHA
Senior Director Business Development
Dr. Umer Sayeed-Shah brings his expertise in finance and the capital markets, cardiovascular medicine, and bio-medical science to Flow Cell.
Dr. Shah is a leading cardiovascular surgeon and scientist. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his Residency in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Yale University. He completed both his Research Fellowship and Clinical Fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery at Harvard University and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was trained in the laboratories and under the mentorship of Dr. Lawrence H Cohn, in the Division of Cardiac Surgery, and Dr. Victor Dzau in the Division of Cardiology and Molecular Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Lahiri K. Nanduri, PhD
CSO
Lahiri Nanduri is a biologist with over 15 years of expertise in single-cell methods for oncology. He has lots of publications known as an SME in this field. Lahiri has worked in multiple organizations with organoids, biobanking, and evaluating cutting-edge tools.
Dr. S.S.R Kumar Challa
Board Member
S.S.R. Kumar Challa has over 20 years of experience in nanotechnology research within the academic and start-up arenas. While taking a break from academic research, he is focusing primarily on start-ups. He recently completed an assignment as the Managing Director at Harvard University’s Energy Frontier Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Director of Nanomaterials at the Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices (CAMD) at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Mark Wesson
CFO
Mark Wesson has experience leading analysis and restructuring of the programs to improve the quality of care for patients. He’s also skilled at cultivating innovation using the latest technologies to improve information management and communication. Over his 20-year career, Mark has designed, conducted, managed, analyzed, or reported many health care projects.
He has disseminated many of the resulting data-driven program proposals and reports directly to providers or senior health care executives. Mark worked with providers, executives, and support staff across the continuum of care within the emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care delivery settings. He simultaneously project managed, coordinated, or consulted on analytic, strategic, financial, operational, or system administration responsibilities