Bala S. Manian
Bala S. Manian is an
Academy Award certificate for technical achievement.[1]
Early life
Bala Manian was born in
Purdue
in 1971, conducting research in the Applied Optics Laboratory of the College of Engineering. From 1971 until 1974, Manian held a position as a senior research associate and assistant professor at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics.
Career
As a consultant for various companies, he helped develop the first compact "under the counter"
Corning, Kodak, and the Union Pacific Railroad
.
Manian then founded various other companies Digital Optics Corporation,MRI images used in medical diagnosis directly onto film. This required a special film developed by Kodak for optimum results. Manian sold Digital Optics in 1984 for $7.5 million[3] to the Matrix Corporation.
Manian remained as
Molecular Dynamics and Lumisys, a company dealing in laser-based x-ray
film digitizers.
He then founded
pharmaceutical companies the ability to perform cell function analyses in the discovery and development of pharmaceutical drugs. Manian co-founded the company Surromed and Quantum Dot Corporation in 1998.[6] Quantum Dot Corporation (QDC) developed and sold novel solutions to accelerate the discovery and development of functionally validated novel drug targets at the cellular level. QDC's products and services employ quantum dot (Qdot) particles. Bala Manian founded ReaMetrix in May 2003.[7] and serves as a science and business advisor for a number of entrepreneurial companies (Galileo Labs, Biocon India, ICICI Knowledge Park and APIDC -VC). Currently, he is also an advisor to the startup TeliportMe.[8]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Andrew Pollack (February 24, 2005). "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Medical Firms Join the Trend To Outsourcing". New York Times. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-527-31290-0. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Lauren Barack (February 21, 1999). "Laser whiz wins Oscar; but don't save inventor Bala Manian a seat at the awards". New York Post.
- ^ "Manian – Our People – Purdue Engineering". Engineering.purdue.edu. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Short Biography". Jaws.com. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ "Marcel Bruchez Bio". Carnegie Mellon University. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ^ "Management « ReaMetrix". Reametrix.com. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ "360: TeliportMe Brings Its Killer Panorama App To Android (Oh, And It Works On Over 200 Phones)". July 30, 2011.
References
- The Hindu The Knowledge Industrialist[usurped]
- Purdue 2000 Distinguished Almnus
- Import the science, but implement it in the local context