Primary Job Title President & CEO Primary Organization 
Nvigen
Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female Also Known As Dr. Aihua Fu
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Aihua Fu is a Co-Founder and CEO of NVIGEN Inc. She is a nanobiotechnologist and an
entrepreneur with over 12 years’ experience in developing nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
Aihua holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in the research group of Dr. A. Paul Alivisatos. Aihua has a M.S. degree from
Rutgers University and a B.S. degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology.
Aihua's postdoctoral research at Stanford University was supervised by Prof. Shan X. Wang and Prof. Sam S. Gambhir to engineer nanoparticles with enhanced properties for in vitro diagnostics and in vivo cancer imaging and drug delivery applications.
Aihua has won many awards and honors including Dow Chemical Award, Du Pont Award, the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award and the NIH Pathway to Independence Award.
