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Iranian molecular biologist

Mostafa Ronaghi (Persian: مصطفی رونقی; born 1968) is an Iranian molecular biologist, specializing in DNA sequencing methodology.

He earned his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 1998.

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As of 2008^[update], he is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Illumina.^[1] Prior to this position, he was a principal investigator and Senior Research Associate at the Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University, focusing on developing analytical techniques for molecular diagnostics.

He is principal investigator for several grants including grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health^[2] for the development of array-based Pyrosequencing.

In 1998, he described together with Pål Nyren and Mathias Uhlen^[3] a solution-based variant of the pyrosequencing technology and co-founded Pyrosequenc