William (Bill) Hyun
Director of the Lab for Advanced Cytometry and the Sony Biotechnology Center at UCSF @ University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
William (Bill) Hyun is a startup investor at University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco Bay Area. SCIENTIST, INVENTOR, ENTREPRENEUR, AND STRATEGIC INVESTORWith more than 25 years of life technology experience, William (Bill) Hyun is a respected expert in both basic research and clinical lab technology development. At the University of California San Francisco, Bill's faculty appointment included directing his own lab and one of thelargest academic core facilities in the world, with a strong concentration on cytometry and genomic technologies implementing a myriad of research, translational and clinical applications. His academic career included joint appointments at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, three honorary doctorates, and authorship of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Bill has been directly involved in the conception, design, engineering and validation of numerous commercially successful analytical instruments, consumable products, and software programs, often in collaboration with companies like Carl Zeiss, Becton Dickinson, Sony Corp.Bill's career is characterized by his ability to repeatedly identify opportunities for disruptive science and technology in transformative markets, and to add value through the life cycle of a start-up. Bill has been a founder, investor, and/or advisor to more than 50 startups with the common goal of impacting healthcare worldwide. Bill is a current board member for five companies, serves as Venture Partner for Genoa Ventures focused on early-stage investment, and is closely affiliated with four life tech incubators.
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About University of California, San Francisco
UCSF scientist over twenty-five (25) years, twenty-three as Director of the Laboratory for Cell Analysis (LCA). Currently Director of the Lab for Advanced Cytometry (LAC) and the Sony Biotechnology Center at UCSF in the Department of Laboratory Medicine.• Built the LCA into one of the largest academic cytometry core facilities worldwide. • Directcontribution to grants totals well over $40M in extramural funding. • Helped design and build five commercial flow cytometers, two cell sorters, and two commercial confocal microscopes. Current work supports several developing technology fields including automated digital pathology and laser-based microdissection systems, next generation clinical cell sorters, spectral flow cytometry, chip-based cytometry and point-of-care devices, wide-field high-resolution deep tissue confocal microscopy, mass spec flow cytometry (CyTOF), and spectral in vivo imaging. Application development includes single cell genomics, new functional reporter probes for cell cycle, cellular biosensors, FRET/FRAP/FLIM reporters for monitoring protein and drug interactions, new encoded carrier technology for immune profiling and liquid arrays, and rapid identification systems for virology and microbiology. Hyun also participates in biomedical software and database design, and testing of new algorithms for cytometric data processing and presentation of results.
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Andrej Sali
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