Sasan Amini

Sasan Amini is the co-founder and CEO of Clear Labs, a San Carlos-based genomics company that builds automated next-generation DNA sequencing platforms for food safety and infectious disease diagnostics. He holds a PhD in genomics from Princeton University and previously worked in the Advanced Research department at Illumina. He is best known for leading Clear Labs through a rapid pivot into SARS-CoV-2 surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic, deploying automated sequencing technology to more than half of U.S. public health laboratories.