Elian Rakhmanaliev PhD, is currently Director of R&D at One BioMed. Elian is a Life Sciences and Biotechnology professional with over 20 years of international academic and industrial experience and expertise in molecular diagnostics, genetics, and molecular biology. For the past 12 years his main focus was on developing NGS-, qPCR- and IA-based IVD tests and platforms for molecular diagnostics as well as nucleic acid extraction systems.

He obtained his MSc in Molecular Genetics from Moscow State University, and his PhD in Genetics from Vavilov Institute of General Genetics. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in Oncology at Karolinska Institute and in Immunogenetics at Johns Hopkins University. He received several academic awards for his work and has (co-) authored over 30 publications.