Ines Moretti
President
Biotechnology
Pyxis Laboratories
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Ines Moretti obtained her degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1974. Her postdoctoral training includes analytical chemistry, molecular genetics and biochemistry of breast cancer. She has held research and faculty positions at the Medical College of Georgia, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center and University of California, Irvine. Beginning in 1990, and continuing for eight years, she served as Director of the Biochemistry Laboratory at the Hitachi Chemical Research Center. Over the years, Dr. Moretti has successfully applied her research on organic synthesis and chemical modification of therapeutic drugs, purification of antigens and antibodies to develop innovative reagents for immunoassays and test devices such as pregnancy tests, ovulation, infectious diseases and drugs-of-abuse. Dr. Moretti is a highly productive scientist. In addition to holding two patents, she has over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has won important international prize research awards.
Research Interest
Biotechnology
