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Date: On-demand
Duration: Approximately 70 minutes
Expert panelists:
Francis Poulin
Vice President, Analytical Sciences, Sail Biomedicines
Francis Poulin is Vice President of Analytical Sciences at Sail Biomedicines, a Flagship Pioneering Company based in Cambridge, MA. Francis leads the development of analytical procedures for Endless RNA™ (eRNA), a uniquely engineered RNA that was invented at Flagship Labs. Prior to Sail Biomedicines, he held positions at Laronde, Lyell Immunopharma, Sanofi, and Genzyme, and in these roles contributed to several successful regulatory filings. Francis received his PhD in Biochemistry from McGill University in Montreal, where he worked with Prof. Nahum Sonenberg on the regulation of mRNA translation initiation.
Nikolaos Mellios
Chief Scientific Officer, Circular Genomics
Nikolaos Mellios is the co-founder and CSO of Circular Genomics Inc. and an Associate Professor of Neurosciences at University of New Mexico with leading expertise in the field of circRNAs and their relevance for psychiatric and neurological disorders. He has significant academic experience in RNA biology and psychiatric research via his PhD training in UMass Medical School and postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has published pivotal work on the role of circRNAs in brain function and psychiatric disease in his laboratory at UNM. As a CSO and lead inventor of Circular Genomics, he has pioneered the methods for specific, accurate, and reproducible quantifications of circRNAs in peripheral samples and the use of such novel biomarkers for precision medicine.
Dr. Andrew Coffey
Senior Applications Chemist, Agilent Technologies
Andy joined Polymer Laboratories in 1989 after completing his PhD in peptide synthesis at Wolverhampton, UK. He progressed from Senior Scientist to Product Manager, looking after multiple product lines during the acquisition by Varian (2005) and then Agilent Technologies (2010). He joined the Biocolumns Applications Team in August 2011 and has considerable experience in reversed phase, ion-exchange, and size exclusion liquid chromatography method development, technical support, and troubleshooting.
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