General Investing >> CEO Interviews >> March 24, 2003

Michael Natan – Nanoplex Technologies Inc

MICHAEL NATAN, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of Nanoplex Technologies. Dr. Natan most recently served as Chief Technical Officer of SurroMed, Inc, where he led the creation and development of its integrated platform for comprehensive phenotyping and biomarker discovery. Dr. Natan is the inventor of most of Nanoplex Technologies' intellectual property, and he has unparalleled experience in all aspects of metal nanoparticle technology, with over 60 published papers and several issued patents. Prior to joining Surromed, he was a full professor of chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University, and the founder of Auspex Technologies, LLC, a technology holding company acquired by SurroMed. During his tenure at Penn State, he received a Beckman Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Fellowship, and research funding from NIH, NSF, DARPA/ONR, EPA and USDA. Dr. Natan received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Yale University, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from M.I.T., and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. Profile
TWST: Would you start us off with brief overview of Nanoplex

Technologies?

Dr. Natan: Nanoplex manufactures encoded metal nanoparticles

(Nanobarcodes_ particles) and has developed the software