President and CEO
Vala Sciences, Inc
Jeffrey Price, Founder, President and CEO of Vala Sciences, is a pioneer in high throughput microscopy. His work is focused on creating drug discovery techniques built on novel microscopy imaging tools, and advancing in vitro preclinical hiPSC-derived disease-in-a-dish drug discovery models for heart and neurodegenerative diseases. These bioengineering efforts include disease model development, and advancing fundamental aspects of instrumentation such as increased speed, resolution, and data interpretation and management, to speed preclinical drug discovery. In 1999, Dr. Price founded Q3DM which was acquired by Beckman Coulter Inc in 2003. In 2004 he moved his academic lab from UCSD to Sanford-Burnham, and became Professor at Scintillon Institute. Dr. Price received his B.S. in Biomedical (Electrical) Engineering from the University of Southern California, his M.D. from Loma Linda University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in bioengineering from UC San Diego.