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Kristen Nailor (she/her/hers)

Genentech, Inc, California, United States

Kristen Nailor is a Principal Scientific Manager and leader of the Biologics Sample Management Group at Genentech, Inc. Kristen holds a degree in Biochemistry from Indiana University. She began her career at GlaxoSmithKline where she spent 7 years as a medicinal chemist. She then transitioned into the Sample Management world in 2010 when she accepted a position as the head of Compound Management at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, she built a robust compound management facility and workflows that supported a wide variety of academic drug discovery programs and industry collaborations. After almost 5 years at Vanderbilt, she became the leader of the La Jolla based Compound Logistics team at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson in 2014. In addition to leading her team, she was also a key member of a global core team tasked with implementing a Mosaic Sample Management Software rollout and laboratory infrastructure upgrade across multiple sites. Since 2017, she has been the group leader of the Biologics Sample Management Group, now part of the expanded Drug Discovery Sample & Data Management organization at Genentech in South San Francisco, CA. As interest in biologics and new modalities have grown across the industry, her current passion is to see biological sample management further expanded and elevated to a higher level of throughput, efficiency and impact as small molecule sample management in the drug discovery process. Kristen is also a dedicated advocate and active volunteer in the broader Sample Management Community, and currently serves as Chair of the SLAS Sample Management Special Interest Group, as well as on the program committees for the 2021, 2022 (chair) and 2023 SLAS Americas Sample Management Symposia. She also had the honor of serving as co-chair for the SLAS 2023 International Conference and Exhibition.

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