President — Ciencia's current President is Mr. Arturo Pilar. Arturo's career
at Ciencia began as the Vice President, but he assumed the full responsibilities as
president in 2006. Under Arturo's leadership, Ciencia has developed the
D2SPR and D3SPR technologies, and he is actively
persuing corporate partnerships to bring these and our next-generation technologies to
market. In 2012, Ciencia won the second-largest number of SBIR grants from the National
Institutes of Health in Connecticut. Arturo aims to translate these technologies into
platforms for furthering biomedical research and ultimately the field of clinical
diagnostics.
Principal Investigator — Ciencia's current Principal Investigator and Chief
of Engineering is Dr. Ernest Guignon. Dr. Guignon has had a long and successful career
in instrument design and production, and has been with Ciencia since its founding in 1992.
Dr. Guignon specializes in taking a concept, recruiting the relevant experts necessary to
maximize a project's success, moving through a systemic analysis and
feasibility assessment, and completing the technical and analytical steps necessary
to achieve the delivery of an integrated fully functional system.