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Senior Scientist, Assay Development

Delfidiagnostics · Palo Alto, CA · On-site

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About Delfidiagnostics

FirstLook Lung is a blood-based test that helps identify lung cancer risk before or alongside LDCT, for USPSTF-eligible adults. From DELFI Diagnostics. Backed by Menlo.

About the role

Design, develop, and optimize assay, reagent, and quality-control parameters to set tolerance limits and meet performance requirements for complex multiomic assays. Assist and execute analytical validation (AV) studies, other design verification studies, and design transfer activities as assigned by your manager.

What they're looking for

  • Support Delfi's culture of compliance by following and contributing to scalable tools, structures, and processes for compliant product development
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About Us

DELFI Diagnostics, Inc. (DELFI Diagnostics) is developing next-generation, blood-based tests that are reliable, accessible and deliver a new way to help detect cancer. Employing advanced machine-learning methods to whole-genome sequencing data, the DELFI ("DNA EvaLuation of Fragments for early Interception") platform is built to address the highest-burden health challenges. DELFI Diagnostics prioritizes solutions that have the potential to save lives on a global scale, including for historically underserved populations. DELFI Diagnostics’ platform relies on fragmentomics – the discovery that cancer cells are more chaotic than normal cells and, when they die, leave behind tell-tale patterns and characteristics of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragments. FirstLook Lung, for individuals eligible for lung cancer screening, is DELFI Diagnostics’ first laboratory-developed screening test and can be part of routine blood work. FirstLook Lung uses millions of data points to reliably identify individuals who may have cancer detected through low-dose CT, including early stage disease with a negative predictive value of 99.8 percent. This test has not been cleared or approved by the FDA.

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