Vera Huang

About Vera Huang

A well-trained and dedicated molecular & cancer biologist with 10 years of pharmaceutical and biotech industry experience, I have a strong passion for applying cutting-edge technologies toward drug discovery, biomarker development, and translational medicine. Highlighted skillsets: • In-depth knowledge and first-hand experience in drug discovery spanning multiple therapeutic modalities including small molecules, antibodies, and oligonucleotides from early discovery to development candidate nomination • Experience working in multiple disease space including oncology, metabolic, neurodegenerative, neuromuscular and rare diseases • Expertise in assay development and state-of-the-art screening technologies • Capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously and meeting tight deadlines. • Excellent manuscript writing and presentation skills. • Highly innovative, motivated, and independent. • Good team player, effective project leader and people manager; work effectively in a multidisciplinary, team-oriented environment. Specialties: biomarker discovery, cell-based assay development; gene expression profiling, liquid biopsy; microRNA; oligonucleotide biology (antisense oligo, RNAi, RNAa); oncology; target identification and validation; tumor biology. Extensive hands-on experience in the applications of next generation sequencing (NGS)-based technologies (ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, Ribo-seq) in basic research, drug discovery, and molecular diagnostics.

Experience

1. Senior Director, R & d, Oligonucleotide Biology

   Ractigen Therapeutics

   Jun 2022 — Present

Education

• UC San Diego

  Ph.D., Molecular/Cancer Biology

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.A.with Honors, Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) emphasis

• University of California, San Francisco

  DOD CDMRP Postdoctoral Fellow, RNA Biology