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Seattle, Washington, United States

Responsible for the development and execution of scientific strategy, including oversight of operations and program management.

Led the Institute’s large-scale data generation organization, including laboratory, in vivo sciences, engineering, and program/project management.

Led team of scientific program managers who coordinated the internal and external activities for the major research initiatives run at the Institute.

Rahway, New Jersey

Led antibacterial drug discovery program centered on a chemical genomics approach for finding new lead molecules from natural product sources. Responsible for setting the scientific direction and coordinating the activities of a global cross-functional team; including biology, chemistry, automation, and informatics.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for integrating Rosetta’s yeast-based discovery programs with Merck’s Infectious Diseases therapeutic area.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for the development of systematic approaches to gene expression profiling for drug, target, and biomarker discovery. Successfully worked with outside management consulting firm to develop and implement critical manufacturing scale-up plan for company’s core gene chip processing facility.

San Francisco Bay Area

As member of senior management team, developed and led department responsible for all gene expression profiling activities; including technology development, collaborative compound screening for outside parties, and building the company’s proprietary expression profiling datasets.

Ph.D., Biophysics

B.S., Biochemistry