Leaders in Revolutionizing Breast Imaging
We are the leading provider of next generation breast imaging detectors based on our proprietary perovskite imaging sensors.
Meet The Innovation Team
Executive Team
Kendon Shirley
President & CEOKendon Shirley
Kendon is a Radiation Health Physicist who specializes in radiation measurement and detection. He spent several years working at the largest nuclear power plant in North America; keeping the sixth largest city in the United States safe from radiological events. He has over ten years’ experience of design, product/business development, and executive management experience in the medical imaging industry. Kendon holds two medical imaging patents and has extensive experience in building strategic business relationships and successfully managing a high growth business.
Tiffany Shirley
Chief Financial OfficerTifffany Shirley
Tiffany Shirley earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Accounting from Linfield University and graduated magna cum laude with a Masters of Business Administration from Southern Oregon University. Tiffany has worked for Oregon State Credit Union, located in Corvallis, Oregon, since 1996. During her tenure at the credit union she has served in a variety of roles including; Teller, Card Services, Centralized Services, Accounting, and Risk Management. She currently serves as the Vice President of Risk Management.
Advisory Board
Arie Shahar
Technical Advisor (Detector Design Consultant)Arie Shahar
Arie Shahar has a Ph.D. in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Post Doctorate from AT&T Bell Labs. Dr. Shahar has published 45 scientific papers and 108 patents. He has R&D experience in semiconductors, on-chip integrated optics, SEM-CD, optical communication, EDXRF and Gamma and X-Ray radiation detectors. Dr. Shahar was the co-founder of Prima Luci, a startup in optical communication based in the United States. Dr. Shahar has retired as the chief scientist from GE Healthcare in Israel.
Jessica Germino
Technical Advisor (Medical Consultant)Jessica Germino
After receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, Jessica Germino worked for research organizations focused on health policy research and Alzheimer’s disease. She later earned a medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and trained at the University of Washington in Seattle for both her diagnostic radiology residency and breast imaging fellowship. Dr. Jessica Germino joined Corvallis Radiology in 2017 and is currently their Director of Breast Imaging. She is also the Medical Director of Breast Imaging for Samaritan Health Services. Dr. Germino and her family enjoy spending time outdoors and treasure the natural beauty of Oregon.
Collaborators
Wanyi Nie
Perovskite synthesis and material characterizationWanyi Nie
Wanyi Nie joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a Postdoctoral Associate working on perovskite-based photovoltaic devices since 2013, and was converted to Staff Scientist in 2016. During this time she developed a novel technique called “hot-casting” to deposit high crystalline hybrid perovskite thin films. This work was published in the Science Journal, and was rated as one of the most “highly cited papers in this field.” Wanyi currently leads a team working on perovskite growth and their applications for radiation detection.
Michelle Dolgos
Perovskite synthesis and material characterizationMichelle Dolgos
Michelle Dolgos is an expert in the synthesis and characterization of perovskites used in electronic applications. She received her BSc in Chemistry at Hillsdale College, then attended the University of Tennessee for her MSc where she worked on silver (II) fluorides. She then attended Ohio State University for her PhD in the Woodward Group, where she studied structure-property relationships of complex oxides. She had the opportunity to do a postdoctoral fellowship abroad in the Rosseinsky Group at the University of Liverpool where her main focus was the synthesis and characterization of novel piezoelectric perovskites. After 5 years as an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University, she moved to the University of Calgary in 2018 as faculty in the Department of Chemistry where she works on the rational design of electronic materials for energy applications.
Elías Torres
Graphene transistor design, fabrication, and characterizationElías Torres
Elías Torres holds a licentiate in Solid State Physics by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), a MSc in Nanotechnology by Lund University/UCM, and a PhD in Graphene electronics by the University of Exeter. He obtained a Marie Curie fellowship to keep researching graphene and 2D materials within Graphenea, where he now leads the Foundry division. His expertise resides in device fabrication and semiconductor physics, where he has published works within the field of optoelectronics, flexible electronics, and sensing.
Quanxi Jia
Electrical readout design, detector assembly, and electrical characterizationQuanxi Jia
Quanxi Jia is an Empire Innovation Professor at University at Buffalo (UB). He is also the Scientific Director of New York State Center for Excellence in Materials Informatics. Prior to joining UB in 2016, he was the Director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center operated jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. His research includes the study of processing-structure–property relationships of nanostructured and multifunctional materials, and the development of microelectronic/electro-optic devices.
Ed Cazalas
X-ray characterizationEd Cazalas
Edward Cazalas has been an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah since 2018. His primary research focus is in areas of radiation detection, dosimetry, and radiation effects. Before coming to University of Utah, Prof. Cazalas was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Air Force Institute of Technology at WPAFB, Ohio, and a Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the RAND Corporation. He has a decade of experience working on graphene-based devices.