About ATUM
ATUM has been providing tools and solutions to Life Science researchers for over twenty years. Our products, services and most importantly our people enable scientists worldwide to achieve their goals.
ATUM founders from left to right: Claes Gustafsson, Ph.D., Jeremy Minshull, Ph.D., Sridhar Govindarajan, Ph.D., and Jon Ness, Ph.D.
The Leadership Team
Oren Beske, Ph.D.
Amalgamator of Business and Biology
Ferenc Boldog, Ph.D.
Director, Cell Line Development
Elaina ten Bosch
Chief Operating Officer
Megan Chen
VP, Commercial Licensing and Transaction Strategy
Sridhar Govindarajan, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
ATUM’s Co-founder and CIO, Dr. Sridhar Govindarajan leads computataional, engineering, security and automation efforts – including developing AI methods for Antibody Engineering. Prior to founding ATUM, Dr. Govindarajan held positions at Maxygen and Eragen Biosciences. His thesis on protein folding and evolution laid the groundwork for ATUM’s GPS technologies. Dr. Govindarajan received his PhD in Computational Chemistry/Biophysics from the University of Michigan and holds an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of technology, Bombay.
Claes Gustafsson, Ph.D.
Chief Commercial Officer
Jeremy Minshull, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Jon Ness Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Pedram Sattari
Vice President of Sales
Frances Steingrimsson
Director, Finance and Culture
Mark Welch, Ph.D.
VP, Research and Development
Our History
Founded in 2003 as DNA2.0, ATUM has built on its DNA design and synthesis expertise to develop an integrated pipeline of solutions for the research community.
With a reverence for the interplay between science, technology and nature, ATUM’s unique and proprietary engineering platform is based on Design of Experiment (DoE), empirical testing and machine learning. The result is the precise engineering of commercially relevant properties in genes, vectors, proteins and cell lines.
ATUM emphasizes customer service as a critical measure of success. We aim to be a resource and research partner for scientists, to enable accurate and innovative delivery of specific, immediately useful solutions. Customers value the individual scientist-to-scientist support they receive from ATUM’s technical sales and support staff, as well as the speed, accuracy, and flexibility with which products and services are delivered. ATUM’s freely downloadable software tool Gene Designer and the online DNA ATLAS, give you the DNA sequence manipulation and management tools that we use in-house.
ATUM is based in the US, with a global customer base encompassing academia, government and the pharmaceutical, chemical, agricultural and biotechnology industries. ATUM is by far the most published synthetic biology vendor, providing expert support to and collaboration with scientists. The company is privately held and is headquartered in Newark, California.
Patents
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