Bhairavi Parikh

CEO
CellScape

Bhairavi is the CEO of CellScape, a First trimester, non-invasive, fetal genetic testing which is one of the holy grails in medicine. CellScape is developing a technology to achieve this goal through analysis of circulating fetal nucleated red blood cells (fnRBCs) between 8 and 14 weeks of preg¬nancy. Bhairavi has deep domain expertise in the development of medical biosensors with numer¬ous published articles and several issued patents. She has over 10 years of experience in the field of medical devices and diagnostics. She designed and developed a sensor for the measurement of therapeutic inhaled nitric oxide and led the instrumentation team for medical device clinical studies while at the University of Massachusetts Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Bhairavi was also involved in new product development at Natus Medical. Bhairavi has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from a joint program with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She also earned an MS in Biological Engineering from the Univer¬sity of Connecticut and a BS in Biochemistry from the University of New Hampshire.