Erwin Berthier is the co-founder and CTO of Tasso Inc. a Seattle-based company developing patient-centric, distributed, diagnostic technologies. Tasso is providing solutions to make blood diagnostics simple and convenient, enabling better access to healthcare solutions, clinical research, and clinical trials for anyone. The technologies developed under his leadership focus on painlessness, convenience, and the need for more personalized solutions for the patient.

He is also an Affiliate Professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received a Diplôme Ingénieur in Fluid Mechanics from ENSTA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Technologies Avancées) in Paris, a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is the author of over 50 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 12 patents, and a co-author of the book “Open Microfluidics”.