For our next Biotech Career Chat, we will be hosting Dr. William (Wes) Salomon from Tessera Therapeutics!
Wes is an Associate Director at Tessera Therapeutics where he leads the Delivery Biology team. He has been with Tessera since early 2019 and manages a group of scientists and research associates whose focus is on translating discoveries in GeneWriting, Tessera’s platform technology, by using relevant delivery reagents, primary cell models, and in vivo proof-of-concept experiments. Prior to joining Tessera, Wes was at Intellia Therapeutics where he left as a Principal Scientist that led a group of researchers that investigated the kinetics of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in mammalian cells using in vitro, cell, and in vivo-based systems. Wes applies his skills and thinking as a biochemist to understand genetic medicine-based therapeutics by focusing his team’s research on the kinetics and rate-limiting steps of these new medicines. Wes’s team’s use of quantitative measures to understand key steps or properties with a therapeutic allow them to merge biology with engineering approaches to overcome limitations to efficacy.
Wes’s training has been centered in Worcester where he earned a Bachelor of Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Biotechnology that concentrated in Molecular and Cellular Biology. After working as a research associate at local biotech companies CytRx and RXi, he went on to earn a PhD from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Medical School in 2015. He did his doctoral research focused on the biochemistry of RNAi in the lab of Phil Zamore at the RNA Therapeutics Institute and in the Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology department.
This event is an opportunity for intimate networking between postdocs steering towards industry positions and scientists/hiring managers at biotech, pharma and startup companies in Boston and Cambridge. Therefore places are limited to 20 participants. Make sure to register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biotechnology-career-chat-tickets-164044638931