Dan Kagan

Dan Kagan is the Senior Director of Marketplace Innovation at Assay Depot. He is responsible for launching and developing new projects designed to increase researcher and vendor engagement. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in Bioengineering with a focus on biological applications for Nanomachines. While working with his mentor Dr. Joseph Wang, he had 14 publications (9 first author) and 3 patents, he completed finance and entrepreneurship certificate programs, and he was chosen one of the world’s top 80 graduate students by the Siebel Foundation. In graduate school, he was an Executive Board Member on the Graduate Student Council, APD Consulting Club, Bioengineering Society and 100K Entrepreneur Challenge. Dan completed a digital marketing consulting internship at eBoost Consulting while in graduate school and then, after defending his thesis, joined eBoost in a business development role. Before joining Assay Depot in 2013, he also helped launch ChemoTactics; a recombinant protein manufacturer that leverages proprietary techniques to create modified chemokines for drug discovery research. In his spare time, Dan is an avid Ironman triathlete and enjoys a good glass of wine.