Grail: Mostafa Ronaghi

Mostafa Ronaghi has joined Grail's board of directors. Ronaghi is currently Illumina's senior vice president of entrepreneurial development, and previously served as the company's senior VP and chief technology officer, a role in which he led internal research and technology and cofounded Grail. He also cofounded the Illumina Accelerator.

In 2007, Ronaghi cofounded Avantome, a privately held sequencing company that was acquired by Illumina in 2008. Before this, he cofounded NextBio, a search engine for life science data that was acquired by Illumina in 2013. In 2001, Ronaghi cofounded ParAllele Bioscience, which was eventually acquired by Affymetrix, and was involved in the development and commercialization of highly multiplexed technology for genetic testing. In 1997 he cofounded Pyrosequencing AB, which was renamed Biotage in 2003. Ronaghi earned his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and was a principal investigator at Stanford University from 2002 until 2008, focused on the development of novel tools for molecular diagnostic applications. He also serves on the board of directors of BaseHealth and Clear Labs.