Govind V. Kaigala PhD

Dr. Govind Kaigala is a Research Staff Member at the Research Laboratory of IBM in Zurich. Previously, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the microfluidics laboratory in Mechanical Engineering and Urology at Stanford University, USA. Dr. Kaigala received his Ph.D (Electrical Engineering and Oncology) and M.Eng from the University of Alberta, Canada, and B.Eng from the University of Mumbai, India.

He is passionate about translational clinical/medical research and strives to bring in quantitation in biology by leveraging micro- and nanosystems assays for microchip-based chemical and biomolecular analysis. He is currently leading activities on liquid-based non-contact scanning probe technologies – microfluidic probe – and is championing concepts on “open space” microfluidics and “tissue microprocessing”. These ideas have enabled a new class of molecular methods implemented for tissue analysis: micro-immunohistochemistry (uIHC), micro- Fluorescence in situ hybridization (uFISH) and Spatialyse. These research activities are driven by specific needs in the fields of pathology and personalized medicine.