Mariana Kuras

Biography

Mariana directs the production of the studies at Ariana, including all client based project and collaborative consortia. Her hands-on expertise in the development of diagnostic solutions has allowed Ariana’s technology to be closely tied to the experimental needs of the industry. Prior to joining Ariana in 2012, Dr. Guergova-Kuras was leading the research efforts in biomarker discovery using antibody proteomics at Biosystems International, where she also headed large collaborative programs (cancer and CNS). Before this, Mariana was a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Pfizer Research Center in France, where she began her career. In addition to numerous scientific publications, she is also a co-inventor on several patent applications for biomarker signatures which are currently in development. She was awarded a PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA.

Research Interest

Oncology