Melina Fan
Executive Director, Addgene
Melina Fan is the Executive Director and Founder of Addgene, a
non-profit organization that archives and distributes plasmids,
DNA-based tools that biologists use to study gene function. Addgene
aims to build a central repository of useful plasmids from published
experiments. Addgene's service significantly lowers the barrier to
sharing research results in the academic community.
Melina Fan received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Harvard Medical
School in 2004. While at Harvard, she studied diabetes and
metabolism. She has worked at Genetics Institute in Cambridge, MA, and
Sequana Therapeutics in San Diego, CA. She earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Biology from MIT.
See Melina Fan's publications here.