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Keith Steward, PhD
Keith has worked in the Biotechnology and Medical Device industry for some 12 years as an Informatics professional, including as Director of Bioinformatics and Senior Director of Informatics. He managed diverse teams of Bioinformatics scientists, software developers and IT professionals as large as 25 people and as small as a few people, and inspired those direct reports to team and individual successes. Keith was involved in several startups, and worked for two big multi-national corporations. He brought to market 3 commercial Internet-based Bioinformatics applications, and developed a number of internal mission critical databases and applications. Keith was an invited speaker at 3 international Bioinformatics industry conferences due to his highly innovative work. Keith has a total of 26 years of software development experience, of them 12 years in management. Some of the leading companies Keith worked for include PerkinElmer, Monsanto, and Ingenuity Systems. Keith holds a bachelor's and a PhD in Molecular Biology from University of Western Ontario.
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Jeff Chen, PhD
Dr. Chen serves as a Chief Scientific Officer of IFXworks, bringing over 15 years of professional experience in diverse areas of computational and systems biology. Jeff's scientific strengths include genome annotation, network analysis, functional and comparative genomics, proteomics profiling, micro-array transcription profiling, biological databases and data integration. During the course of his academic and industry careers, Dr. Chen was personally responsible for assembly and analysis of over 170 microbial and 5 plant genomes, and also mouse and human genomes. Dr. Chen assembled human genome-scale protein-protein interaction networks, as well as conducted research in target discovery for treatment of colon cancer. Dr. Chen has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and over 20 US and international patents. Before joining IFXworks as a founding partner, Jeff was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, Project Manager of Proteomics Cyber-infrastructure in the NIH/NIAID National Biodefense Program on Human Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Chen worked for Prolexys Pharmaceuticals and Monsanto Company. Jeff holds a Doctorate in Genetics and a Master's in Computer Science, both from Iowa State University, and a Master's degree in Biochemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Vladimir Makarov, PhD, MBA
At IFXworks.com Vladimir is responsible for project management and West Coast operations. Vladimir has over 20 years experience in the sciences and information technology, with specific interests in biological and chemical applications and international business. Before founding IFXworks Vladimir lead a multi-year, multi-million development project at Pfizer where he build an on-line marketplace for contract research services. Prior to Pfizer Vladimir developed information systems strategy at Amgen, world's largest biotechnology firm. Vladimir worked in Software, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries since 1986. His career spanned several start-ups and multi-national corporations. Vladimir earned a Doctorate in Computational Biology at Baylor College of Medicine, one of the major centers for the public Human Genome Project, and an MBA from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles. Vladimir is teaching on topics in bioinformatics and technology management at the University of Maryland and California State University.
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