Open House - Global Healthcare 2022: LungLife AI | Edison Group
LungLife AI is a diagnostic company focused on the early detection of lung cancer from a simple blood draw enhanced by artificial intelligence.
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Paul Pagano, CEO, LungLife AI
Paul Pagano is the CEO of the company and has over 15 years of experience in the sciences covering chemistry, engineering, and cancer biology. He was trained at UCLA in translational lung cancer research and has multiple publications spanning early disease pathogenesis and resistance to targeted lung therapy.Paul has spent the last five years at the Company leading research and development teams in developing clinical diagnostics for lung cancer using liquid biopsy. Paul has held positions at Cynvenio Biosystems Inc (formerly known as CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.) where he developed and patented a microfluidic platform for circulating tumor cell enrichment and analysis, and at Amgen Inc. in quality analytical laboratories. Prior to Amgen Inc., he worked in Human Resources at State Farm Insurance, one of the leading property and casualty insurance providers in the US, where he facilitated the California zone restructuring and consolidation efforts that resulted in significant operational cost savings.Paul received a B.S. from UC Santa Barbara in microbiology and immunology, and earned a PhD in pharmacology from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.