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o Dr. LiAn Yeh, Director, BRITE Institute 8:30-10:00am Talent Development Panel
This discussion will focus on building your region’s talent in the bioscience field through the continuum of education from K-12, Post Secondary, and Higher Education.
§ Moderator: Mr. Russ Read, Executive Director, National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce
o Ms. Linda Eno, Principal, Central NJ Biotech High School
o Dr. Elaine Johnson, Executive Director, BIO-LINK
o Ms. Nadine Lomakin, Executive Director, Life Science Career Alliance
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Speaker Profiles
Ms. Linda Eno
Principal,Biotechnology High School
Freehold, NJ
Linda Eno iscurrently the Principal of Biotechnology High School, part of the MonmouthCounty Vocational School District in Freehold, NJ. She was hired by district back in 1996 to help open theirMedical Arts High School. There,she taught classes in the Medical Careers area and directed field basedexperiences and Service Learning activities. She left Allied Health in 2002 to do the preparatory workfor Biotechnology High School, which opened in 2005. Before that she worked as a registered nurse in both the ICUand in homecare. She has anundergraduate degree in nursing from Thomas Edison State University and aMasters in Business from Monmouth University. She lives in Interlaken, NJ with her husband and has twogrown children.
Ms. NadineA. Lomakin
ExecutiveDirector
Life ScienceCareer Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
A self-proclaimed"jack-of-all trades", Nadine A. Lomakin has over twenty years of workexperience in a variety of fields and environments.
Nadineis currently the Executive Director for the Life Science Career Alliance(LSCA), a regional private-public partnership that works to strengthen and growthe life sciences in the Delaware Valley by maintaining and improving theregional life sciences workforce. The LSCA works primarily in the five countiesof Southeastern Pennsylvania. Its board of directors is comprised of leadersfrom area health systems, educational institutions, industry, workforceagencies, labor unions, and other community-based organizations, allowing forcomprehensive regional response to workforce issues. The LSCA seeks to promote the regional economy and workforcedevelopment by strategically guiding career enhancement for adults and youththroughout the region. The LSCAfocuses on the healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device/diagnosticindustries. It has grants from theUS Department of Labor High-Growth Initiative Grant in bio-technology and theHuman Capital Investment Project grants for from the PA Dept. of Labor &Industry, and serves on the Executive Committee of Delaware Valley Innovation Network (WIRED) .
Prior to thejoining the LSCA, Nadine's was as a Senior Program Administrator for theAmerican Association for Cancer Research, a global membership organization worldwidededicated to the prevention and cure of cancer. Nadine has an undergraduate degree is in hearing and SpeechScience from Ohio University and a masters degree in Higher EducationAdministration from The George Washington University.
Dr. Li-An Yeh
Director
BRITE Institute
Dr. Yeh receivedher Ph.D. degree at Purdue University in biochemistry 1980, and then she gained3 year post-doctoral experience at Harvard University. She started her drug discovery researchcareer at Pfizer Central Research, R&D in 1984. During 1992 to 2001, she joined three biotechnologycompanies working as a scientific director, including OsteoArthritis Science,Phytera Inc and NEN-Life Science. In 2001, she joined Laboratory for DrugDiscovery in Neurodegeneration (LDDN) as the Director, Lead Discovery atBrigham Women Hospital/Harvard Medical School. In 2004, she was recruited by Eli Lilly as a ResearchAdvisor in Lead Generation Biology. In June, 2005 she became the Director, BRITE (Biomanufacture Research InstituteTechnology Enterprise) and Professor of Biology at North Carolina CentralUniversity.
Her researchexperience in drug discovery included neurodegeneration, diabetes, anti-ulcer,osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, infectious diseases (anti-viral, anti-fungal andanti-microbial), and cancer. Her current research interest focuses on drugdiscovery in diseases related to neurodegeneration. She is currentlyestablishing a new academic screening center at BRITE/NCCU. This screeningcenter has a chemical collection of 350,000 compounds and has capacity for highthroughput screening, database management, medicinal chemistry,chemo-informatics, molecular modeling and lead optimization.
