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Maria Thompson

Maria Thompson, PhD has a background in molecular genetics and over 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical and diagnostics research and development. She has held a variety of roles including Head of Genome Wide Screening for Type 2 diabetes, Six Sigma Black Belt, and VP of Scientific Affairs. Dr. Thompson is a Principal Consultant at APEX Think, a private consulting company providing scientific and technical advisory services to clients across the life science industry. Dr. Thompson holds a BSc in Genetics and a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry from the Royal London School of Medicine, UK.
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Feb 27, 2013

By some estimates, the pharmaceutical outsourcing market could grow to $65 billion by 2018, fueled by a compound annual growth rate of nearly 15...

Feb 26, 2013

I’m sure it comes as no surprise to anyone reading this article that we have a problem in drug development. Pharmaceutical companies are having to...

Feb 21, 2013

Rare diseases by definition only affect a small number of people, but rare disease studies can reveal valuable information for more common...

Feb 20, 2013

Recently, Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable (OBR) interviewed Scientist’s Kevin Lustig about how his career decisions and approach to research shaped his...

Feb 15, 2013

Last month we ran a series of blog posts about next generation sequencing. Among the topics discussed were the limitations of next generation...

Feb 13, 2013

We’ve covered many different aspects of pharmaceutical innovation, ranging from organizational structure, patents, and incubators, but are there...

Feb 7, 2013

Here at Scientist, for the past few weeks we’ve been running a series of blog posts about stem cells discussing why iPS make an attractive research...

Feb 5, 2013

In the field of synthetic chemistry, the “elephant in the room” is that chemists spend most of their time just trying to reproduce published...

Jan 31, 2013

In our previous post on stem cells, we discussed how human-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are being used to model “disease in a...

Jan 30, 2013

Carlsbad, CA is soon to be home to San Diego’s own community laboratory space. Much along the lines of Genspace in NYC and BioCurious in Sunnyvale...