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Senior Biotech Consultant
Umagen LLC
Uma Ananth is Principal and Owner of a small business in Massachusetts, Umagen LLC. She has served as a Senior Biotech Consultant since 2008 for start-ups and mid-size biotech companies specializing in the field of Molecular Genetics. Her premier clients portfolio include Athena Diagnostics, GeneDx, Bioreference Labs, Progenika, Opgen Inc, Claritas Genomics, QnAdx , Women’s Health LLC and C2i-Genomics. Consulting services broadly encompass product development, quality control, licensing/certifications, regulatory approvals for products and laboratory operations management for clinical reference laboratories specializing in both human and microbial genetics.
Prior to starting her small business she was Director (R &D) at Athena Diagnostics. At Athena she provided leadership in the execution of company's R & D strategy and technological vision, meeting new product revenue goals each year and launching over 100 proprietary high-throughput clinical molecular diagnostic assays.
Uma holds a PhD in Neurochemistry from MS University, India and completed part of her thesis project at Ralph Lowell Labs, Harvard University, Boston, USA. She also holds a CoQ for “Genetic Testing” from New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH).
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT