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.