Samar Parikh

Binx Health has appointed Samar Parikh to its board of directors. Parikh has held various leadership positions at Amazon including global leader business development and strategy, and general manager CPG, consumer healthcare, and consumer healthcare innovation. Boston-based Binx is developing a desktop point-of-care platform called Io to perform rapid PCR-based detection in 30 minutes and with laboratory quality results. A multicenter, clinical study is currently underway to evaluate Io for clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for chlamydia and gonorrhea.