Vanessa Strings-ufombah
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Benitec Biopharma
Australia
Biography
Vanessa Strings-Ufombah is a Research Scientist II with training in Virology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where she studied the mechanisms of poliovirus replication, with the goal of identifying novel host factors involved in the replication process. Following her Ph.D., Vanessa accepted an Associate Scientist position at a company where she continued to work in the field of virology. She specifically worked on production of an attenuated viral therapeutic for HIV. There she learned GLP and GMP procedures as well as the ins and outs of the viral manufacturing processes. After yearning to return back to bench science, in February of 2015 Vanessa joined Benitec Biopharma and is currently the lead scientist overseeing the company’s research efforts for the orphan disease, Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) program.
Research Interest
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
