Caption: Siddarth is seen with his parents Padma & Satish and sister Anitha.
Mysore, May 11
Success does not see age or education, instead it sees hard work and enthusiasm to succeed in one’s endeavour. This is true in case of a graduate who, while most of his peers are working at entry-level jobs or in graduate school, is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a medical device startup company.
Siddarth Satish, who has his roots in Mysore, started Gauss Surgical just after finishing Master of Translational Medicine (MTM) programme of Bioengineering Department at University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Siddarth has raised about $1 million in venture funding, hired several full-time staff, recruited a veteran entrepreneur as CEO, and is submitting designs to the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
His transition from ChemE undergrad to CTO of his own company in just under two years was due to hard work, brains, ambition and MTM programme. The MTM programme is a one-year master’s degree offered jointly by UC Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), aimed at accelerating the translation of cutting-edge research into advances in patient care.
Finishing up his 2010 Berkeley B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Siddarth joined MTM. He was partnered with fellow students Amer Abdulla and Charles Zhao to work with Professor in Bioengineering Dr. David Rempel. Although not all MTM graduates go on to startups or to work in industry, the unique experience helps students with ambition pursue their passion. The team explored several different projects with collaborators at Stanford Medical Center, including one on virtual instrument pedals that resulted in a patent filing and presentation at the American Academy of Pediatrics. All three decided to focus on another operating room problem: estimating surgical blood loss.
The team completed prototyping to accurately diagnose blood loss before graduating in Summer 2011, and then decided to take their work all the way and form a company: Gauss Surgical.
Siddarth is the son of Padma & Satish, residing in the US since 17 years. City’s industrialist and art patron K.V. Murthy is his maternal grandfather while late Dr. M.S. Nagaraja Rao (former Director General of ASI) was his paternal grandfather. Siddarth has a sister Anitha who will be entering medical school soon.
source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / General News/ May 11th, 2012