In this interview, we talked to Dr. Giacomo Vacca, Founder and President at Kinetic River, a startup in the San Francisco Bay Area that develops cutting-edge biomedical instruments.
Kinetic River was founded in 2010 by Giacomo Vacca, who holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University and has over 50 patents in microfluidics, including a technology that boosted flow cytometry throughput by a factor of 30.
It was a pleasure talking to Giacomo and learning more about their technology and how it is enabling biomedical research. Here's what we discussed:
- What does Kinetic River do? (0:20)
- What is flow cytometry? (1:00)
- What's different about Kinetic's technology? (2:00)
- Label-free biomedical research and why is it attractive (4:30)
- Label-free cancer research (7:00)
- COVID-19 detection using flow cytometry (8:50)
- The Potomac flow cytometry platform (10:40)
- Water-quality research in Naples, Italy (12:30)
- How's Kinetic River's typical customer (13:40)
- How JKI helped Kinetic River build their state-of-the-art software (15:55)
- The process of designing Panama software suite (19:25)
- Building robust biomedical analysis software (22:35)
- How Kinetic River got started (24:30)
- Going from working at Abbott Labs to founding Kinetic River (26:52)
- Giacomo's recommendations for people looking to innovate in the biosciences (27:35)
We hope you enjoy this interview and you can read our full case study with Kinetic River using the link below :)
