Djikolngar Maouyo PhD PyroDex LLC

Djikolngar Maouyo, Ph.D., Founder, Managing Director and President of PyroDex LLC Prior to founding PyroDex LLC in February 2017, Dr. Maouyo served as Senior Scientist at Lonza Bioscience in its Walkersville, MD, plant for more than 9 years, where he led R&D teams focusing on rapid microbial detection, including universal bacterial and fungal detection, mycoplasma tests, and endotoxin detection based on Limulus amebocyte lysates. Before joining Lonza, Dr. Maouyo held faculty positions at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. These faculty positions followed postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Montreal, as well as a Ph.D. in biology (with a concentration in integrative animal physiology) at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Maouyo contributed to the revision of the European Pharmacopeia chapter on the Monocyte Activation Test as a member of the 2019 European Task Force on the MAT. He is a world leader and recognized expert in Monocyte Activation Test science and technology, and a member of the Consortium of Rapid Microbial Testing Methods of the American National Institute of Standards and Technology.