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StarFish Bio Services support three core areas:
We commercialize client assays in a wide range of formats including ingestible, point of care and microfluidics. Our experienced team of dedicated professionals ensure quality at every phase of product development.
We provide complete turnkey development services or expertise focus on a critical subsystem. Our engineers, physicists, industrial designers, regulatory and manufacturing experts work with your team to ensure an optimal outcome.
Bio Services works on many types of medical device product development projects, ranging from handheld diagnostic tools to highly automated lab equipment, autonomous sampling and assay technologies for infectious disease diagnostics.
Nick Allan
Bio Services Manager
Lorenzo Gutierrez
Microfluidic Applications and Integration Lead
Maharshi Trivedi
Bio Services Program Design Lead
Nick Allan
Bio Services Manager
Nick Allan is the Bio Services Manager at StarFish Medical. Allan joined the company as a Project Manager, becoming Bio Service Manager in 2016. He has provided innovative solutions to client issues ranging from proof-of-concept studies for rapid detection point of care assays to full scale regulatory submission studies, and designed and facilitated more than 500 Unique Research Protocols. Allan is President of Chinook Contract Research, co-founder and former GM of The Institute for Applied Poultry Technologies, and former Contract Research Manager at Innovotech Inc. Allan holds an MS in Microbiology and BS in Biology from the University of Guelph.
Lorenzo Gutierrez
Microfluidic Applications and Integration Lead
Lorenzo Gutierrez is Microfluidic Manager and Interim Toronto Site Director at StarFish Medical. Gutierrez has over 30 years of product development experience in semiconductor, consumer electronics, and medical devices at companies including Mirux, ChipCare, and Kapplex. His microfluidic applications include cell-based, immuno and molecular assays. Lorenzo specializes in overall system design, hardware engineering, integration, and translation of assay workflow to consumable cartridges. Gutierrez earned his PhD in Bio-Process Engineering at the University of Tokyo.
Maharshi Trivedi
Bio Services Program Design Lead
Maharshi Trivedi is the Bio Services Program Design Lead at StarFish Medical. He brings over 15 years of global strategy & operations experience in the field of medical devices and life sciences from companies including Ancera, Medtronic, and Boston Scientific. Trivedi earned an Executive MBA from Yale School of Management, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Gujarat University.
I think StarFish is a perfect combination of discipline for quality control and all the regulatory requirements that are there for good reason, but at the same time, porous enough that it’s not siloed departments. If there’s a really good person that’s had experience in an aspect of your project, they might be called in. They might show up at your meeting because they’ve heard about it, they have a keen interest, and can lend an idea that may ultimately be a definitive moment in the development of the product.
When we’re sitting in a room it feels like one team working on one project. We’re all equally invested emotionally in what we’re trying to accomplish. And we certainly believe that what we’ve been working on has the potential to have very significant impact on mental health.
Encouraging a company to go down a development path that is realistic from a design, regulatory, and indication for use perspective is really important. StarFish Medical identified major risks in developing the medical device and made sure we tackled those first. They understand small details which go into developing a medical device that a first time research team wouldn’t consider.
Working with StarFish provided us access to lots of talented engineers—electrical, biomedical, mechanical, and software—and structured project management. Our microbiome sampling project and prototype had been going on for 4 years. We handed the project to StarFish and have made great progress since.
They took a very methodical approach based on determining indication for use that helped us identify new peripherals, add functionality and enable manufacturability.
StarFish Medical played a critical role in our ability to produce an alpha-prototype for validation. In an incredibly short time, and very cost effectively, StarFish engineers help us develop an instrument that completely changed the way our company is perceived… We will certainly work with Starfish again.
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Our hiring is highly flexible – we engage full-time employees, contractors (fixed duration and as-needed) and on-call staff. To apply, please submit a cover letter outlining your interest, availability and rate to careers@starfishmedical.com.