Jaime Blais, PhD
Program Manager
Jaime Blais is Menssana Research’s Program Manager and a trained biochemist with 10 years of biomedical research experience with demonstrated success in assay development and small molecule High Throughput Screens. She recently completed her post-doctoral training at NYU (2006-2010), under the supervision of David Ron developing HTS assays to identify small molecule inhibitors of the Unfolded Protein Response. She earned her PhD from the University of Ottawa in 2006 in Biochemistry/Human Molecular Genetics studying survival and adaptive pathways stimulated by the tumor microenvironment.
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Renee Cataneo
Laboratory Director
Renee Cataneo has been the Breath Research Laboratory director since joining Menssana Research in 1995. She earned her MA in Environmental Scienceat CUNY, the College of Staten Island. She joined Menssana to get through her Master’s program and got absolutely hooked. In her own words, “There is no place like home.”
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Anirudh Chaturvedi
Biomedical Engineer
Anirudh Chaturvedi has a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He works in research and development on point-of-care instrumentation for breath analyses including GC/SAW, GC/FID, and electronic nose technologies, as well as with lab-based instrumentation, including GCxGC/TOF MS and GC/MS (Quadrupole). He is the Product Development Engineer for the Remote Diagnosis System (RDS) and is the Project Manager of Phase I and Phase II clinical studies on breath tests for tuberculosis and breast cancer.
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Mayur Mundada
Chemical Engineer
Mayur Mundada graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He works in the R&D of analyzing chromatograms on GC/MS, GCXGC TOFMS (Pegasus IV), GC-FID and GC-ATD, and he is also developing methods on the systems. He worked on our environmental toxicology study, developing detection of different VOCs in hospital air.
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Mauli Pandya, MS
Research Director
Mauli Pandya has five years of biomedical research experience. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago in biomedical engineering with a specialization in biomechanics, and worked as a research coordinator at Northwestern University, Chicago before joining Menssana. She currently manages our multi-center clinical studies including breast cancer, heart transplant rejection, and radiation biodosimetry, which are funded by various government grants and agencies. She writes /reviews protocols, CRFs, Informed Consent forms and study documents. She organizes and manages approved documents and monitors activities at the clinical sites to assure adherence to Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), SOPs, and study protocols.
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Urvish Patel
Data Manager
Urvish Patel has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He also works in R&D on point-of-care instrumentation for breath analyses including GC/SAW and electronic nose technologies, as well as with lab-based instrumentation.
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Samantha Peruyero
Executive Administrative Assistant
Samantha Peruyero is an alumna of Hunter College with a degree in English Language Arts. She recently joined Menssana Research, where she locates grant opportunities and supervises grant submissions. She came to us from the NYU School of Medicine, where she gained her grant submission experience as a scientific project assistant to several principal investigators and their laboratories.
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Astrid Phillips
Marketing Manager - Strategy
Astrid Phillips has a BA Honors in English Literature and a BFA cum laude in graphic design from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California, and an MBA in marketing (faculty fellowship) from the UC Irvine. She supervises Menssana's market research and brand strategy.
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Jonah Phillips
Sales and Regulatory
Jonah Phillips has a BA in history and communication studies with a minor in writing from the University of Iowa, as well as an MBA in general management from California State University, Long Beach.
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Linda Phillips
Human Resources
Linda Phillips's background includes El Al Airlines, the New York City Department of Social Services, and various NGOs. Linda studied at the Hebrew University in Israel, and received a BA in international studies from The Ohio State University.
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Michael Phillips, MD, FACP, FRCP
Founder & CEO
Michael Phillips is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and a fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, a physician, and a clinical professor of medicine. He spent nearly thirty years in academic internal medicine and clinical research (University of Connecticut, Georgetown University, Chicago Medical School, New York Medical College) until a great stroke of luck changed everything: his hospital went bankrupt and he was unemployed. That freed him up to spend all his time on his favorite hobby, which is developing breath tests for early detection of diseases such as lung cancer, breast cancer, and tuberculosis.
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