-1 to Guardant Health with Helmy Eltoukhy
South Park Commons is delighted to host co-founder of Guardant Health, Helmy Eltoukhy.
Event Details
3:30pm: Doors Open
4:00-5:00pm: Fireside Chat
Helmy Eltoukhy is the co-founder and chairman of the Board of Directors for Guardant Health and has served as the company’s Co-Chief Executive Officer since August 2021. Prior to founding Guardant, Dr. Eltoukhy held various positions at Illumina, from August 2008 to December 2012, including Senior Director of Advanced Technology Research, where he developed novel chemistries, hardware and informatics for genetic analysis systems. In June 2007, he co-founded Avantome Inc. to commercialize semiconductor sequencing to help speed up the democratization of high throughput DNA sequencing and served as Chief Executive Officer until its acquisition by Illumina in August 2008.
He joined the Stanford Genome Technology Center, or SGTC, as a post-doctoral fellow in 2006 to work on low-cost DNA sequencing technologies. During his doctoral studies and at the SGTC, he developed the first semiconductor sequencing platform and first base-calling algorithm for next-generation sequencing under several National Human Genome Research Institute grants. He received his PhD, MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is also a co-chairman of English football club Sheffield United.
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