James Russell
Senior Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA
Biography
James Russell obtained his PhD in Bioanalytical Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde in June 1994. Then completed a NIH Postdoctoral fellowship at UC Riverside working on the thiol /disulfide chemistry of peptides in HIV conserved regions. He spent 20 years at Gen-Probe Incorporated where he was responsible for numerous successful IVD products, including the first NAT test, used to screen the nation’s blood supply for HIV and Hepatitis. In 2016 he joined Thermo Fisher as a Senior Director in the R&D department working on Next Generation sequencing assays.
Abstract
Abstract : Addressing immuno-oncology research challenges for predictive biomarkers