Theodore Sana
Metabolomics and lipidomics leader in disease agnostic research for both early discovery and clinical biomarker ID, target ID, and pipeline impact
- Role
- Director, Metabolomics at Merck
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Theodore Sana
Senior applied research scientist and manager, with broad bio-analytical and data analysis expertise * Metabolomics lead, early drug discovery in large Pharmaceutical firm * Member of the Mass Spectrometry & Biophysics Leadership Team: involved in building strategy, and developing careers for my reports * Expertise in clinical, pre-clinical and basic research exploratory experiment design, analysis and interpretation of results * Actively developed talent, including scientists, coops and interns, maximizing diversity of thought and inclusion that empowers and and engages all team members * Proactively engaged stakeholders across global org in both functional and therapeutic areas to define strategies for metabolite/lipid biomarker ID (prognostic/diagnostic) and target ID * Maintained a strong partnership with biostatistics, bioinformatics and systems biology teams to help build IT supported data analysis pipeline * Balanced strategic investment in new technologies and tactical utilization of solutions across global organization to drive scientific impact * Evaluated new HW & SW technologies, CROs for externalization of additional Metabolomics & lipidomics analyses * At Agilent: Marketing & business development management experience for Life Sciences; assessed new opportunities to help drive incremental business in adjacent and new markets * Built several strong, collaborative relationships with KOLs in academia, and served as technical contributor on research grants * Worked cross-functionally across the global organization to help advance company strategic initiatives * Experienced mentoring, training and managing technical personnel * Prolific writer of technical documents: peer-reviewed publications, internal applications notes, presentations, webinars Core competencies: Technical expertise in untargeted and targeted metabolomics, data analysis and visualization of small molecule metabolites, proteins and transcripts using proprietary and open source software. Mass Spectrometry: LC/MS, LC/MS/MS, and GC/MS for both small and large molecules. Genomics, proteomics, protein biophysical characterization, SPR and cell-based binding assays, bioassays, receptor, assay automation, FACS, PCR, molecular and cellular biology, computational biology, biochemistry, biomarker discovery, DOE, familiar with R-scripts. Extensive experience establishing academic collaborations and performing technical due diligence
Experience
Director, Metabolomics
Jun 2017 — Present · Cambridge, MA
Established a new metabolomics laboratory and capabilities for doing Molecular and Cellular Metabolism at Merck & Co. Led a team of accomplished scientists performing disease agnostic research including: immuno-oncology; neurodegenerative diseases; metabolic diseases such as T2D, NAFLD, NASH; vaccine hypo-responses
Education
Dartmouth Medical School
PhD, Molecular Pharmacology
Cambridge Tutors, London, U.K.
GCE O and A levels high school diploma
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & science
B.S., Toxicology
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