President and CEO
Vala Sciences, Inc
Jeff Price is President and CEO of Vala Sciences, and Professor, Scintillon Institute. His degrees are: BS, Biomedical Engineering, USC; MD, Loma Linda University; PhD, Bioengineering, UCSD. He invented automated image cytometry for his PhD dissertation, and founded Q3DM (acquired by Beckman Coulter). He then founded Vala Sciences, moved his lab from UCSD and invented KIC® at Sanford-Burnham-Prebys (SBP) where he coauthored the NIH MLSCN grant that launched Conrad Prebys (HTS) Center for Chemical Genomics. After discovering that KIC® of hiPSC-cardiomyocytes predicts arrhythmia with 90-95% accuracy, exceeding animal studies (55-85%) for the first time for any human outcome, he’s focused developing AI-enabled KIC® of cardiovascular and CNS hiPSC models to predict mechanism of action and discover new drugs for heart and neuropsychiatric diseases, and on reducing animal use. He’s contributed to over 200 written works as coauthor (including patents), and non-authored publications utilizing these tools.