Sang-Hyun Oh

Sang-Hyun Oh, PhD, co-founder and CTO of Priogen, is an expert in biosensors and nanotechnology. He is currently a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Sanford P. Bordeau Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received his BS in Physics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Sci. & Tech (KAIST) and PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University. For over 15 years, Dr. Oh has been the principal investigator of federal/state/industry projects with a total budget exceeding $10M and has led a multi-disciplinary research team developing nanotechnology-based biosensors. The members of the Oh lab work at the interface between nanotechnology and life sciences toward developing improved diagnostic sensors, wireless microfluidic technology, and applications of machine learning for nanobiotechnology.  He joined the MNPRO center at its inception and has collaborated with Dr. Peter Larsen on the development of advanced diagnostic tools for the rapid and sensitive detection of infectious prions.

At Priogen, Dr. Oh will oversee a cutting-edge engineering team toward generating new IPs, developing advanced diagnostic platforms for ultrafast prion detection as well as data analytics. In 2022, Dr. Oh was inducted as a Fellow by Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA), for his “outstanding contributions to the development of fabrication techniques for nanophotonics, of nanophotonics biosensors”.  He is the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award from the US Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund’s Doctoral New Investigator Award, and the 3M Faculty Award. He was a visiting professor at Imperial College London and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).