David Wernick Email & Phone Number

· Biotech Team Leader with extensive experience building and coaching technical teams, orchestrating scientific strategies, and partnering to strengthen development pipelines.· Driving biotechnology development and innovation with a broad foundation: - Strategic team leadership: Founded a 10-person technical team and devised scientific plans, organization, and milestones. Oversaw tech transfers to CROs and CMOs. Communicated project status to non-technical VP leadership. - Enabling discoveries: Built automated platforms to screen >6k enzyme variants per week per FTE, and developed bioprocesses yielding >8g/L/day product of interest. Culminated in 14 publications with over 1,000 total citations, 7 patent applications, and a portfolio of 5 enzyme product candidates approaching market launch. - Collaborating for success: Fostered external partnerships for R&D and scale-up developments with $7M total in contracts. Shared academic developments with then CA Governor Jerry Brown as part of $100M funding request.· Advanced biotechnology lab and pilot-scale expertise with particular emphasis on: bioprocess development for cell culture and fermentation, engineered protein expression, analysis, and purification, and DNA variant library construction.

Listed skills include Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cloning, Bacon, and 35 others.