Mostafa Ronaghi

Mostafa Ronaghi (; born 1968) is an Iranian molecular biologist, specializing in DNA sequencing methodology. , he was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Illumina.

In 1998, Ronaghi, Pål Nyren, and Mathias Uhlen described a solution-based variant of the pyrosequencing technology, and co-founded Pyrosequencing AB (renamed to Biotage in 2003). He co-invented molecular inversion probe assays, and co-founded ParAllele BioScience to develop this multiplexed technology for genetic testing. ParAllele was acquired by Affymetrix in May 2005.

In 2005, Ronaghi co-founded NextBio, a search engine for life science data.

NextBio was acquired by Illumina in 2013. He also serves on the board of directors of IntegenX and Aurora Biofuels. In 2008, Ronaghi and Helmy Eltoukhy co-founded Avantome, a DNA sequencing company that was acquired by Illumina in July 2008.

Publications

Among his peer-reviewed journal articles are the publications describing pyrosequencing and molecular inversion probe assays, and other techniques:

He also holds about 20 patents.