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nicolas durand
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Dr. Nicolas Durand, PhD
CEO & Founder Abionic SA, Lausanne, Switzerland
“I’m committed to improving the world of diagnostics through innovation by providing a rapid quantitative platform to medical practitioners.”
Nicolas Durand is Chief Executive Officer at Abionic SA, a Swiss company and spin-off from European leading technology school EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland). Abionic has developed the abioSCOPE®, a CE-marked versatile in-vitro platform that
provides instant quantitative diagnosis for various types of applications.
Nicolas holds a Master of Science in micro-engineering from EPFL with a specialization in production techniques. He was involved in the development of resonating biosensors at Carnegie
Mellon University (USA), and is the winner of the 2006 Omega Award (Best Master thesis in
micro-engineering). He is the founder of EPFL aeronautics association, and was the president of
EPFL robotic association between 2002 and 2005. In 2003, he developed a robotic platform that
is currently still used by EPFL students.
Between 2006 and 2010, Nicolas’s PhD research on biomolecular diffusion in nanofluidics led
to several scientific publications and patents, which is the core of Abionic’s technology. With
Abionic, Nicolas is the recipient of more than 20 entrepreneurial awards including the Young
Entrepreneur Award. Notably, Nicolas was elected Captain of the Swiss Venture Leaders in 2010
who represented Swiss innovation in the USA.
On the private side, Nicolas owns a pilot license with aerobatic, was astronaut candidate for the
European Space Agency in 2006 and participated to the 8th Student Parabolic Flight Campaign
as group leader.
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