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Kathryn Todd

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Director, R&D at Thermo Fisher Scientific
📍 Menlo Park, California, United States

Kathryn is the Director of R&D at Thermo Fisher Scientific, specializing in medical device development from feasibility to validation. With a Ph. D. in Physics from Stanford and a B. S. from Caltech, she is a technical leader with skills in system engineering, manufacturing processes, and FDA interactions. Colleagues describe her as "cheerful" and "enthusiastic".

As an award-winning researcher even at an undergraduate level, she has a history of focusing on complex systems. She is also a patent-holding inventor, driven to create pragmatic solutions that meet real-world user needs.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Director, R&D
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Medical Device R&D
Her entire career, including leadership roles at Thermo Fisher and DELFI Diagnostics, has been focused on research and development for medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics.
Systems Engineering
She has held multiple senior roles in systems engineering, indicating this is a core expertise and a key part of her approach to product development.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Director, R&D
Thermo Fisher Scientific
4-2024 - 11-2025
Senior Director, Systems Engineering
DELFI Diagnostics
10-2022 - 11-2025
Director of IVD Development
DELFI Diagnostics
10-2020 - 10-2022
Senior Manager, Systems Design Engineering
Thermo Fisher Scientific
8-2020 - 10-2020
Senior Systems Engineer
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Education
2001 - 2009
Ph.D.
Stanford University
1997 - 2001
B.S.
Caltech
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