Meet the team reimagining protein biomarker quantitation

Paul Hung, PhD

CEO

Paul is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of successful commercialization and exits. His companies – CellASIC and Combinati – were acquired by Millipore Sigma and Thermo Fisher Scientific, respectively. At Taudia, Paul draws on his extensive experience to turn cutting-edge science into market-ready products.

Cindy Chen, PhD

Co-Founder and COO

Cindy is a seasoned biochemist and certified project management professional. With deep R&D experience across startups and large companies – including Millipore Sigma – she now brings her technical expertise and operational leadership to drive strategic execution at Taudia. Her mission to improve health care through technology pushed her to co-found Taudia.

Robert Lin, PhD

Co-Founder and CTO

Robert brings over a decade of product development expertise in both the IVD and RUO spaces. He led next-gen platform development at Cepheid and microfluidics innovation at Combinati before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Senior Product Manager. His drive to improve lives through science and technology inspired him to co-found Taudia.

Hien Nguyen

Hien Nguyen

Co-Founder and Scientist

Hien is an expert in immunoassay chemistry with over 15 years of experience in protein detection assay development. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, he was instrumental in designing and optimizing high-performance assays across different platforms. As the inventor of Taudia’s founding innovations, Hien now leads the company’s technical development with relentless scientific rigor.

Jason Wan, PhD

Co-Founder and Head of Product

Jason has a passion for translating ideas into impactful products. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he developed microfluidic tools to study aging. After launching his first products at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Jason co-founded Taudia to build more accessible tools for neuroscience.

Noah Elder

Director of R&D

Noah brings multidisciplinary expertise in assay development, automation, and computational analysis built over eight years at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He played a key role in launching multiple products, making his broad experience a perfect match for Taudia’s mission to deliver scalable, accessible solutions.

Christopher Ng

Director of Operations

Chris has a foundation in product development from his time at Thermo Fisher Scientific, followed by hands-on experience in process development and manufacturing at Seer. He has a proven track record of introducing new capabilities and optimizing existing ones to boost operational efficiency.

Chris Boyson, PhD

VP of Commercial

Chris is a commercial leader with deep experience delivering customer-focused life science solutions. At Taudia, he drives adoption of amplification-based protein quantification on standard qPCR systems to advance biomarker detection and neurodegenerative research.

Daniel Kim

VP of Commercial

Daniel brings over 15 years of experience in immunoassay sales, business development, and reimbursement strategy. At Taudia, Daniel focuses on expanding access to blood-based biomarker assays for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Marissa Lee

Director of Applications

Marissa trained as a chemist at MIT and Stanford before shifting her focus to translating complex science into application-ready products. At Taudia, she is dedicated to expanding access to high-performance neuroscience testing.

Kyan Younes, MD

Clinical

Neurologist, Stanford University School of Medicine

Edward (Ted) Wilson, PhD

Scientific

Director of Biofluid Biomarker testing, Stanford's Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

Charles (Chuck) Collins, PhD

IVD Instrumentation

Former Head of R&D & SVP at Luminex

Wendy Wong

IVD Strategy

Former VP of PMO at Cepheid

Sander Gubbens, PhD

Business

Former President of Gatan

Dr. Norm Gitis

Business

Former VP/GM of Bruker

Dr. Ralph McDade

Business

Former President of RBM (an IQVIA company)

Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD

Scientific

Associate Professor, Neurology Mary Oakley Foundation Professor in Neurodegeneration UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

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