Biography:
Dr. Keenan studied Molecular Biology at the University of California, San Diego and graduated cum laude with her B.S. in 2008. She earned her Ph.D. at Duke University in Genetics and Genomics in 2015, studying how cancer cells adapt to and survive in the tumor microenvironment. After her Ph.D., Melissa trained as a postdoc at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, applying antisense oligonucleotide technology to the rare disease, Cystic fibrosis. She has been at La Jolla Labs as a Scientific writer since 2022 and as Head of Research since 2023.
Title : Democratizing ASO drug discovery at La Jolla Labs