Alexander Aravanis Biography and Net Worth

Alex Aravanis Ph.D. serves as Chief Technology Officer of the Company. Dr. Aravanis brings almost 20 years of experience in leading research and development efforts, spanning basic research and technology development through late stage clinical development, and is returning to Illumina from GRAIL, Inc. which he co-founded, and serves as the Chief Scientific Officer and Head of Research and Development. At GRAIL, he led the teams developing its multi-cancer early detection test by combining high-intensity sequencing approaches of unprecedented breadth and depth, and the latest tools of data science and data engineering, including powerful approaches from machine learning, such as neural networks. He and the GRAIL team created one of the largest clinical study programs ever in genomic medicine to support development of its products. Prior to GRAIL, Dr. Aravanis served in R&D for Illumina and developed multiple technologies, including clinical assays and bioinformatic pipelines for the analysis of RNA and DNA from fixed tissues, whole exome analysis, massively parallel single cell transcriptomics and liquid biopsy using cell-free nucleic acids. Dr. Aravanis holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics Minor from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, and an M.D. from Stanford University.