Nikita Pak

Nikita Pak, Ph.D., P.E.

Senior Consultant

Dr. Nikita Pak is a Senior Consultant at ESi. Dr. Pak has over a decade of experience in mechanical engineering design, primarily focusing on medical device design and testing. This includes evaluating the safety and efficacy of various types of medical devices with cadaveric and surrogate tissue experiments, custom test rigs, and by testing to standards such as ASTM and ISO. He has experience in developing machines and instruments from the design phase through final testing and documentation, including designing devices such as PCR thermocyclers, microfluidic devices, surgical robots, microscopes, cell culture bioreactors, and implantable devices. Dr. Pak was trained as a mechanical engineer with a focus on machine design, manufacturing, mechatronics, and optics and he applies these skills to the world of medical devices.

Dr. Pak is experienced with all aspects of the medical device lifecycle including design, risk management, verification and validation testing, failure analysis and device examination, manufacturing, post-market surveillance, and the regulatory process. He has experience working on all classes of medical devices including surgical tools, bone fixation devices, orthopedic devices, implantable filters, pacemakers, and biopsy markers.

Publications

  • Developing failure criteria for laceration injury of dermal tissue, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, January 2023
  • Expansion sequencing: Spatially precise in situ transcriptomics in intact biological systems, Science, January 2021
  • Sparse decomposition light-field microscopy for high speed imaging of neuronal activity, Optica, January 2020
  • Precision calcium imaging of dense neural populations via a cell-body-targeted calcium indicator, Neuron, January 2020
  • A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters, Nature Chemical Biology, January 2018
  • Iterative expansion microscopy, Nature Methods, 14(6), 593–599, January 2017
  • Thermally multiplexed polymerase chain reaction, Biomicrofluidics, 9(4), 044117, January 2015
  • See CV for further publications

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