Don Perrault

Principal Scientist, Optical Engineer

• 30+ years developing optical systems for life sciences instrumentation.
• Optical design lead for nine commercial flow cytometers.
• First commercial microfluidic flow cytometer (Cytonome, LLC) for iPS Cell Purification used in clinical trials (Parkinson's Disease, Spinal Cord Regeneration).
• Developed numerous optical systems from advanced microscopes to low cost POC devices.
• 27 patents in the field of particle sorting and analysis.
• 25 publications in applications of lasers in surgery in medicine.
• Expertise: Flow cytometry, microscopy, genomic sequencing, spectroscopy, POC diagnostics.
• Tools: Zemax OpticStudio, Python, SolidWorks, Tidy3D (FDTD).
• Facilities: Fully equipped optical development laboratory.