We build medical diagnostic technologies to solve real medical problems - for the people who experience those problems most.

Accel Diagnostics brings together an energetic, experienced, and diversified team that unites entrepreneurship with over 50 years expertise in sciences & technology including researching, inventing, designing, and building medical devices and health services. 

Alberto Gandini, Ph.D., MBA, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder

Alberto is a physicist turned biomedical engineer turned entrepreneur. A long path took him from working on high temperature superconductivity and particle radiation to developing medical devices to co-founding Accel Diagnostics with the goal of enabling patients to live a better life through medical innovation. Following an unconventional trajectory, Alberto led a team at Carnegie Mellon University through the development of the ADX™ technology before securing the licensing agreement and moving the technology development to Accel Diagnostics and leading the commercialization of the company’s first product.

Alberto has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and holds multiple U.S. and EU patents. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Milan, has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Houston, and holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

Alberto loves to the outdoors, skiing and biking, and just been out with his three children.