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Assay Development/Molecular Biology
The expert's private consulting and research company was established to provide innovative solutions to technical problems for researchers in academia and industry. Its charter is to develop strategies and protocols that streamline scientific research in the most time/cost effective ways.…
Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law; Industries: Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences
Expert's Ph.D. thesis research concerned the plasma proteins, especially fetuin. He completed postdoctoral research fellowships at Harvard Medical School / NIH (Alzheimer’s disease, tau gene, genomic cloning), Johnson & Johnson (skin diseases, homeobox transcription factors), and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center…
Virology, Anti-infectives, Gene Therapy, Bioterrorism Research
He has extensive experience in the development and use of viral vectors for gene transfer and in particular has worked with both adenovirus and AAV vector delivery systems. His work with adenovirus vectors included some of the earliest research focused…
Virology, Drug Discovery, Diagnostics, Bioterrorism, and Vaccines
Expert (, pronounced "Berr-oo-in") has spent over 20 years in the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries. During that time he has been involved primarily in viral vaccine and antiviral drug discovery, although he has also run general molecular biology groups primarily…
Gene Expression, Genomics, Microarrays, DNA, Drug Discovery, Product Development
Expert has worked in the biotechnology industry for more than 30 years. He has directed R&D efforts in gene expression technology, genetic engineering technology, DNA microarrays, and high-throughput screening at Sandoz (Novartis), Operon, Agraquest, and GenoSpectra. He has led product…
Microbiology, Biotechnology, Cleanroom Microbiology, Sterilization, etc.
As a consultant, Expert has used his broad-based scientific background to work with a variety of clients. These clients have required expertise in such widely divergent subjects as the production of cellulosic ethanol (requiring a knowledge of basic thermodynamics, enzyme…
Clinical Applications, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Immunology, and Custom Speaking
Expert has been involved in the identification of biological molecules associated with disease and infection with bacterial and viral agents. By applying molecular techniques to vaccine and infection models, he has identified immunological (antigenic) markers of bacterial infections of human…
Sequence Analysis, Structure Prediction, and Parallel Processing
Expert has worked in the field of bioinformatics for ten years and has developed software tools for sequence analysis and structure prediction. Specifically, Expert's expertise is in the application of high performance computers to the problem of database searching and…
Molecular Diagnostics, Molecular Biology, Public Health
Expert has extensive expertise in molecular diagnostics, particularly for infectious pathogens. He is an expert in test development using state of the art technologies, including real time PCR. He has developed and implemented many tests for the detection of pathogenic…
Genomics
Expert worked with a team that cloned and expressed the enzyme T4 endonuclease VII for commercial distribution. He developed the basic assay of enzyme activity that was used in optimization and quality control of the enzyme. He is an author…