OUR FOUNDER
Scientia Bioengineering’s Founder and President, Janet Tamada, Ph.D. has over 30 years of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Dr. Tamada was Vice President of Engineering at Arkal Medical, developer of a microneedle-based wearable glucose sensor; Research Fellow/Director of Early Development at ALZA, a Johnson & Johnson company, developer of IONSYS, iontophoretic transdermal fentanyl delivery system for patient-controlled analgesia; Senior Director of product development at Alexza Pharmaceuticals, developer of the Adasuve loxapine inhalation powder; and Executive Director of R&D and Clinical Affairs at Cygnus, Inc., as scientific, engineering, and clinical lead for the GlucoWatch Biographer, the world’s first FDA-approved real-time continuous glucose monitor. Dr. Tamada is a Fellow of the American Institute for Biomedical Engineering, and has been awarded grants from NIH and SBIR, and awards for publications.
Scientia: Latin: knowledge, a knowing, expertness, or experience.
EDUCATION
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, Post-Doc, Advisor: Professor Bob Langer
- University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Advisor: Professor C. Judson King
- California Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical Engineering with Honors
PUBLICATIONS, PATENTS, AND PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Tamada has been invited speaker to numerous national and international academic institutions and scientific conferences. Dr. Tamada has 41 issued U.S. Patents and numerous additional international patents. Selected publications are listed below.
- Tamada, Janet A., Garg, Satish, Jovanovic, Lois, Fermi, Steve, Potts, Russell O., and the Cygnus Research Team, “Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring: Comprehensive Clinical Results”, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 282(19), 1791-1888 (1999).
- Tamada, J. A., Bohannon, N. J. V., Potts, R. O., “Measurement of glucose in diabetic subjects using noninvasive transdermal extraction”, Nature Medicine, 1:11, 1198-1201 (1995).
- Tamada, J. A. and Langer, R., “Erosion Kinetics of Hydrolytically Degradable Copolymers”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90, 552-556 (1993)
- Sluzky, V., Tamada, J. A., Klibanov, A. M., and Langer, R. S., “Kinetics of Insulin Aggregation in Aqueous Solutions upon Agitation in the Presence of Hydrophobic Surfaces”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 88, 9377-9381 (1991).
- Tamada, J. A., Kertes, A. S., and King, C. J., “Extraction of Carboxylic Acids with Amine Extractants. Part 1. Equilibria and Law-of-Mass-Action Modeling”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 29,1319-1326 (1990).
A full list of patents, publications, presentations, honors and services can be downloaded below.
Janet Tamada’s resume can be downloaded below.
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