Dmitry Bandura is a Soviet-born

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scientist, notable for being one of the co-inventors of the

Mass cytometry Mass cytometry is a mass spectrometry technique based on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and time of flight mass spectrometry used for the determination of the properties of cells (cytometry). In this approach, antibodies are Conjugat ...

technology. Bandura co-founded DVS Sciences in 2004 (acquired by Fluidigm in 2014 and then renamed to

Standard BioTools Standard BioTools Inc., previously known as Fluidigm Corp., is an American life science tools company that offers analytical mass cytometry systems for flow cytometry and tissue imaging, along with associated assays and reagents, as well as an a ...

in 2022) along with Drs

Vladimir Baranov Vladimir Baranov is a Soviet born Canadian scientist and one of the original co-inventors of Mass cytometry technology... He co-founded DVS Sciences in 2004 (acquired by Fluidigm in 2014 and then renamed to Standard BioTools in 2022) along wit ...

Scott D. Tanner Scott Tanner is a Canadian scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. His areas of expertise include mass spectroscopy, especially inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and mass cytometry. Tanner is best known for his work on the fu ...

, and

Olga Ornatsky Olga Ornatsky is a Soviet born, Canadian scientist. Ornatsky co-founded DVS Sciences in 2004 (acquired by Fluidigm in 2014 and then renamed to Standard BioTools in 2022) along with Dmitry Bandura, Vladimir Baranov and Scott D. Tanner. Biog ...

Biography

Bandura grew up in

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, where he graduated from school #35 with distinction. He received an MSc in engineering physics in 1985 and a PhD in technical sciences, both supervised by Professo
Alexander A. Sysoev
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. His PhD thesis research focused on elemental analysis of hypervelocity microparticles via

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mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is used ...

(TOF-MS) of their impact-induced plasma. Bandura emigrated to Australia in 1992, where he worked as a Research Physicist a
GBC Scientific Equipment
There, he worked on the development of

inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is a type of mass spectrometry that uses an inductively coupled plasma to ionize the sample. It atomizes the sample and creates atomic and small polyatomic ions, which are then detected. It i ...

(ICP-MS), contributing to the release of the award-winning Optimass 8000 ICP-TOF-MS in 1998. Bandura then relocated to

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, where he joined MDS SCIEX (no
Sciex
to continue working on the development of new ICP-MS instrumentation methods, particularly in the area of collision and reaction cells. In 2005, together with

and

, Bandura began independently developing an ICP-TOF-MS based cytometer and became a researcher at the

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in March 2005. After securing ample funding by 2010 from various sources, including National Institutes of Health, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), the Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario Centres of Excellence, Health Technology Exchange, and Genome Canada via the Ontario Genomics Institute, and venture capital fro
5 AM Ventures
Bandura and the DVS Sciences team successfully commercialized their technology, leading to the acquisition of DVS Sciences by Fluidigm in 2014 Bandura headed R&D and Canadian operations at Fluidigm Canada following the merger and Standard BioTools Canada (formerly DVS Sciences) following a capital infusion in 2022, stewarding the development of the next generation of mass cytometry and imaging mass cytometry instruments and reagents.

Awards and honors

* 2019 HUPO Award (

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) for “development of a unique high-parameter mass cytometry technology that brings unprecedented understanding of single cell proteomics”, together with the co-inventors

and

. * The Analytical Scientist Innovation Award 2017: #1 New Product of 2017 for the Fluidigm Hyperion Imaging System, as a leader of the development team * 2004

Elsevier / Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award Elsevier ( ) is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, ''Trends'', the ...

for the most important paper published in ''

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'' in 2002 (Title: Reaction cells and collision cells for ICP-MS: a tutorial review) in co-authorship with

and

* 1998 R&D World 100 Winners in Analytical instrumentation for the GBC Optimass 8000 * Fellow of the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the ...

(UK)

Publications

* Sept 2010 - Highly Multiparametric Analysis by Mass Cytometry * Aug 2009 - Mass Cytometry: Technique for Real Time Single Cell Multitarget Immunoassay Based on Inductively Coupled Plasma Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (1148 citations as of January 28, 2023) * Sept 2002 - Reaction Cells and Collision Cells for ICP-MS: A Tutorial Review * Feb 2002 - A Sensitive and Quantitative Element-Tagged Immunoassay with ICPMS Detection * Feb 2002 - Detection of Ultratrace Phosphorus and Sulfur by Quadrupole ICPMS with Dynamic Reaction Cell * July 2001 - Reaction Chemistry and Collisional Processes in Multipole Ddevices for Resolving Isobaric Interferences in ICP–MS A more complete listing of his publications can be found o
Google scholar

Book

References

External links

Standard BioTools Corporate website (Formerly Fluidigm, Formerly DVS Sciences)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bandura, Dmitry Living people Canadian physicists Mass spectrometrists Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni Scientists from Chernivtsi Year of birth missing (living people)