This presentation will focus on how the Nuclear and Radiochemistry Summer School shaped my career development from an undergraduate chemistry student at Tennessee Technological University to my current role as Senior Scientist and Postdoc Mentor in the Preclinical and Translational Pharmacokinetics Department at Genentech (A Member of the Roche Group) in South San Francisco. One of my undergraduate chemistry professors, Dr. Dale Ensor, gave me information about the summer school and encouraged me to apply. During the San Jose summer school in 1997, I was exposed to a variety of research topics in all aspects of nuclear and radiochemistry. I became particularly interested in research on synthesis and preclinical evaluation of radiotracers for nuclear medicine presented by Dr. Carolyn Anderson. I joined her lab as a graduate student, earning my PhD in Chemical Biology in 2004 at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. Upon graduation, I received a Cancer Research Training Award to perform postdoctoral research under the guidance of Dr. Martin Brechbiel on novel targeted molecular imaging agents for cancer at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2007, I joined Genentech where I have continuted to apply radiochemistry towards the development of biotherapeutic drugs.

How the Nuclear and Radiochemistry Summer School shaped my career as a radiochemist in biotech

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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