Cepheid
Uma Balijepally is a seasoned professional currently serving as Senior Director of Supplier Engineering at Cepheid since March 2020, following a tenure as Director of Supplier Development. Prior experience includes roles as Design Transfer Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where successful product transfers to manufacturing were achieved, and Product Transfer Manager at Cepheid, focusing on raw material qualification and manufacturing harmonization. Uma's earlier career includes positions as Assay Development Scientist at Wako Life Sciences and Senior Associate Scientist at Celera Corporation, specializing in molecular diagnostics. Educational qualifications comprise an MBA from Santa Clara University, a project management certificate from UC Berkeley, a Master's in Biological Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, an M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, and a B.S. in Genetics from Osmania University.
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Cepheid
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Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company. The Company develops, manufactures and markets fully-integrated systems for testing in the Clinical and Non-Clinical markets. The Company's systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The Company's systems integrate these steps and analyze biological samples in test cartridges. Its primary offering is the GeneXpert system, which integrates sample preparation in addition to Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) amplification and detection. The GeneXpert system is designed for a range of user types ranging from reference laboratories and hospital central laboratories to satellite testing locations, such as emergency departments and intensive care units within hospitals, as well as physician offices and other alternate site laboratories. It also offers the SmartCycler system, which integrates DNA amplification and detection to allow rapid analysis of a sample.