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Larissa Karnaoukhova, Ph.D. - Director of Strategic Relations - prior to joining Gene Express she served as the Biosciences Sales Manager at VWR International, a leading product supplier to the global research laboratory industry. In this role, she was responsible for promoting and selling drug discovery and development services from a broad range of contract research organizations (CROs) to biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies in Southern California and Arizona. At VWR International, she succeeded in identifying customer needs, in turn presenting solutions through a diverse portfolio of services in genomics, proteomics, pre-clinical development, scale-up manufacturing, imaging, lab automation instrumentation, and clinical trials. Ultimately, this enabled Ms. Karnaoukhova to design strategies to broaden the customer base.Over the previous nine years, Dr. Karnaoukhova developed her scientific career at Invitrogen Corporation, where she took on positions of increasing responsibility. She developed innovative products and services in gene identification and cloning, and served most recently as a Senior Scientist, facilitating program management in cloning and protein expression. She has authored several academic and scientific publications, highlighting her expertise in gene isolation, cloning, and gene expression. Dr. Karnaoukhova is currently working towards receiving an MBA from UCSD, RADY School of Management. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia in 1998, and an M.Sc. in Physics/Biophysics from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia in 1992 | 