Please join us on Tuesday, January 31st at 6pm in Greenberg Lounge for a Bioengineering Talks with Alumni (BETA) Event sponsored by BMES! Pizza will be served - we hope to see you there!
Our speaker will be BE Alumni, Dr. Tina Kramer Garyantes. Dr. Garyantes is a Senior Director at Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, currently responsible for an internal biotech responsible for exploring chemical diversity via high throughput chemical and biotransformations and is working to spin out this endeavor as an independent biotech. She has worked at Sanofi for 11 years in a variety functions including global responsibility for assay development and high throughput screening, phenotypic screening, image based screening as well as with both the Fibrosis and Oncology therapeutic areas. She and her team have been leaders in numerous assay and screening techniques such as the first published image-based screen, ion channels, lipid enzymes, and routine implementation of 1536 well screening. Before joining Sanofi-Aventis, Dr. Garyantes’s work was in the chemistry division of Merck & Co., were she gained recognition for her invention of the virtual well plates which married microfluidics, material sciences, biology and microtiter plates. She was awarded the 2002 PerkinElmer Life Sciences International Award for Innovation in HTS, and the system was licensed to Becton Dickenson.
She has a broad scientific base, having worked in biotech and diagnostics before pharmaceuticals, and having experience in engineering, nanotechnology, molecular biology, cell biology, and biophysics. She has worked in chemotaxis, neuronal signaling, cryopreservation of blood, metal plating, tertiary oil recovery and even designed and delivered an instrument to the Mayo Clinic for fine structure analysis of DNA.
She holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Caltech and a BSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic and professional honors and board memberships include: Scientific Advisory Board member for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and for Cytonome; Board Member of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences; Advisor to NCI, NIMH, Corning Corp. and Matrical; and she is a 2008 Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research Award winner from the NJBRA.