Mariana Kuras PhD

Chief Technology Officer
diagnostic solutions
Ariana Pharma
France

Business Expert Oncology
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 Intrest

 Bioinformatics