Team

Team members#

Liyue Huang: BS Marine Biology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. MS Zoology, University of Rhode Island. PhD Biological Science, University of Rhode Island Liyue worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Neuroscience at the University of Massachussets and the University of Michigan, then briefly at Pfizer in Ann Arbor before joining Cayman Chemical
Tasks: Histochemistry and cytology

Jeff Johnson: BS Chemistry Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota. PhD Biochemistry North Dakota State University. Jeff joined Cayman Chemical as an Associate Biochemist in 1992, and is now the Vice President of Biochemistry at Cayman Chemical

Laura Iverson: BS Biology Michigan State University. Laura joined Cayman in August of 2005 and works in the Protein Expression Laboratory.

Elizabeth Meade: BS Physiology and PhD Physiology, Michigan State University . Beth studied COX-2 expression in breast cancer with Steve Prescott at the University of Utah before joining Cayman in 1997, where she now works as the director of the immunoassay research lab.
Tasks: Mediator and growth factor measurements

Meilan Shen: BS Chemistry, Wuzai College, China. Meilan worked for Pfizer in their cardiovascular molecular science department before joining Cayman in August of 2005.

Sara Eiban: BS Biology, University of Michigan. Sara has extensive experience in the chemistry, biochemistry, and antibody development areas at Cayman.

Kirk Maxey: BS Organic Chemistry, Colorado State University. MD University of Michigan. Kirk has been president and CEO of Cayman Chemical since 1980.
Tasks: Website and fundraising coordinator, science advisor

Sergey Filippov: M.D., Ph.D., Ivanovo State Medical Academy, Russia. Sergey worked at Molecular Medicine and Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School before his current appointment at Esperion Therapeutics, a Division of Pfizer Global Research & Development.
Tasks: Primary culture

Vsevolod Kostrubsky: PhD in Pharmacology/Toxicology from Dartmouth Medical School in 1996 and postdoc at the Department of Pathology at University of Pittsburgh. I am with Pfizer's Department of Safety Science (Toxicology) for 6 years. Task: Currently working with Andrei's cells trying to set up viability testing and staining.

Former Team Members#

Carolynne Geragosian: BA Biology, The University of Iowa. Carolynne worked as a Medical Research Technologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. And as an Andrology Laboratory Technologist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota before joining Cayman in 1999 until 2008 as an Associate Biochemist in Immunoassay R&D.
Tasks: Primary culture and nude mouse model

Karie McGowan: BS Biotechnology Science at Ferris State University. Karie has worked in the cell culture, animal care and biochemistry labs since joining Cayman in 2002 until 2010.
Tasks: Nude mouse model

Nisha Palackal: BS Biochemistry, Manhattan College. PhD Biochemistry University of Pennsylvania. Nisha worked at Diversa Corporation on directed enzyme evolution before joining Cayman’s molecular biology and protein expression units in 2004 until 2009.

Colleen Toole: BS Biology, PhD Molecular Biology, University of Tulsa. Colleen worked at Martek Biosciences and Amphora Discovery before joining the Cayman Molecular Biology program in 2004 until 2008.

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