Dr. Nima Tamaddoni, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at T&T Scientific, is a proven and result-oriented business executive, inventor, and scientist who helped invent, launch, or/and grow several pharmaceutical and medical device technologies and a pharmaceutical nanomedicine manufacturing technology platform. Nima has over ten years of academic, industrial, and business experience focused on lipid nanoparticles and liposomes. With leadership, business, and engineering skills, and knowledge, he has successfully led the business growth and multiple pharmaceuticals research, development, and manufacturing service projects and products at T&T Scientific. Nima founded T&T Scientific in 2015, and his goal has been to help develop and improve technologies and streamline services that increase the efficiency of translating promising medical technology from research and development to scaled-up pharmaceutical manufacturing for clinical trials and approved patient use, all under one roof at the client site or T&T Scientific CDMO.
Dr. Nima Tamaddoni
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
T&T Scientific Corporation
Nima@ttscientific.com
Direct: 865-919-3000
Address:
7140 Regal Lane,
Knoxville, TN 37918 USA
Nima Tamaddoni, Ph.D.
Work Experience
2015 - Present
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, T&T Scientific Corp., Knoxville, TN
2012 – 2016
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Education
2008-2011
Mechanical Engineering
B.S.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2011 - 2014
Mechanical Engineering
M.S.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2014 - 2016
Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Award and Honors
2016
Innovation Award
University of Tennessee - Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
2016
Boyd Venture Challenge 2016
Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Tennessee
2015
Boyd Venture Challenge 2015
Boyd Venture Challenge 2015 - Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Tennessee
2012
Student Best Paper Award
ASME Conference Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems
2011
Nathan W Dougherty Scholarships
University of Tennessee - Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
2010
Science & Math Talent Scholarships
University of Tennessee - Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
Professional Memberships
- Member, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Member, Biophysical Society (BPS)
- Member, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE
Contributions to Science
N Tamaddoni, G Taylor, T Hepburn, SM Kilbey, SA Sarles, Soft Matter 12 (23), 5096-5109
Sensitivity and directionality of lipid bilayer mechanotransduction studied using a revised, highly durable membrane-based hair cell sensor
N Tamaddoni, EC Freeman, SA Sarles Smart Materials and Structures 24 (6), 065014
Toward cell-inspired materials that feel: measurements and modeling of mechanotransduction in droplet-based, multi-membrane arrays
Characterizing the sources of current generated by a membrane-based hair cell sensor
N Tamaddoni, SA Sarles, Bioinspiration & biomimetics 11 (3), 036008
Fabrication and characterization of a membrane based hair cell sensor that features soft hydrogel materials
N Tamaddoni, A Sarles, Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems 45103, 565-571
N Tamaddoni, A Sarles Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems 56048, V002T06A015
Fabricating neuromast-inspired gel structures for membrane-based hair cell sensing
N Tamaddoni, CP Stephens, SA Sarles Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2012 8339, 833908
Mechanotransduction of multi-hair droplet arrays
N Tamaddoni, SA Sarles, Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems 46155, V002T06A008
Role of the array geometry in multi-bilayer hair cell sensors
N Tamaddoni, SA Sarles, Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2014 9055, 90550D
Interrogation of Bilayers in a Multi-Droplet Cluster for Membrane-Based Sensing
MA Nguyen, N Tamaddoni, SA Sarles, Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems 57304, V002T06A007
Complimentary Techniques to Directly Characterize Liposomes: Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, Dynamic Light Scattering, and Electrophoretic Light Scattering
R Ragheb, GJ Taylor, N Tamaddoni, U Nobbmann, D Griffiths, 8th World Congress on Particle Technology
Robust Sensing and Reversible Actuation Using Triblock Copolymer Stabilized Intradroplet Interfaces
N Tamaddoni, GJ Taylor, SA Sarles, Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems 57304, V002T06A003