Founder, yuFlu
Dawn Verdugo, MPH is an epidemiologist-entrepreneur who specializes in pathogen surveillance and discovery. She founded yuFlu Inc. a molecular testing company that focuses on high throughput workflows for respiratory infections and pathogen surveillance. She has multiple peer-reviewed publications using next-gen sequencing technology for pathogen discovery and multiplex assays for the detection of pathogens. She received her MPH from Columbia University in infectious disease molecular epidemiology and has a BS in organometallic chemistry.