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I'm a scientist and biotech entrepreneur who can help you pilot your early-stage startup

Profile Summary

🙋🏻‍♀️ As co-founder of Felome, I have honed my skills in startup operations, cross-functional collaboration and transformation of innovative projects from concept to execution. I thrive in dynamic and fast-paced environments where I can bring analytical problem-solving alongside operational efficiency and strategic thinking. 🚀 I'm an American currently living and working in France. I left academia to launch a biotech start-up in consumer-based genetic testing for animals. I've participated to both incubator and accelerator programs to evaluate and pilot our business development, commercialisation, financing and communication strategies. 🧬 I've spent more than 15 years in academia where I specialised in molecular genetics, developmental biology and high-parameter flow cytometry. I worked at some of the top institutions in the USA (NYU School of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute) and France (Institut Pasteur). 💪 I completed our proof-of-concept in less than 6 months and launched our first commercial product one year later. My strengths include problem solving, quality management, risk assessment and operating on a budget. 👉 For early stage startups, I can offer coaching or consultation on a broad range of strategies and business objectives. I can also work freelance in a supportive role as a Chief of Staff or 'right-hand' to the founders or executives. 💌 Send me a message if you think there is something I can help you with!

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Molecular Biology
• ★ Business Strategy
• ★ Entrepreneurship
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Biomolecular Engineering
• ☆ Genetic Engineering
• ☆ Cytometry
• ☆ Medical Writing
• ☆ Medical Copywriting
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ White Papers
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Copywriting
• ☆ Product Descriptions
• ☆ User Guides & Handbooks
• ☆ Business Operations

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing

Research Market Research, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting, Healthcare Consulting, Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Co-founder and CTO

Felome

October 2022 - Present

Institut Pasteur

2017 - 2022

Research Fellow

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

2014 - 2017

Postdoctoral Fellow

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2011 - 2014

Research Technician

New York University Langone Medical Center

2002 - 2005

Senior Laboratory Technician

Rutgers University Cell & DNA Repository

2001 - 2002

Aquaculture Technician

Aqua Survey, Inc.

1999 - 2000

Education

PhD Molecular Genetics

Yeshiva University - United States

August 2005 - June 2011

PhD (Genetics)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

August 2005 - June 2011

MS (Molecular Genetics)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

August 2005 - May 2007

BA (Biology)

Rutgeres University

August 1998 - May 2002

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Freyer L, Lallemand Y, Dardenne P, Sommer A, Biton A, Gomez Perdiguero E(2022). Erythro-myeloid progenitor origin of Hofbauer cells in the early mouse placenta . Development (Cambridge, England).

Rohit Prakash and Laina Freyer and N{\'{e}}stor Saiz and Svetlana Gavrilov and Raymond Wang and Peter Romanienko and Elizabeth Lacy and Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis and Maria Jasin(2021). XRCC3 loss leads to midgestational embryonic lethality in mice . DNA Repair. p. 103227. Elsevier {BV}

(2021). Megakaryocyte production is sustained by direct differentiation from erythromyeloid progenitors in the yolk sac until midgestation . Immunity.

(2021). Yolk sac, but not hematopoietic stem cell-derived progenitors, sustain erythropoiesis throughout murine embryonic life . The Journal of experimental medicine.

Elsaid R, Meunier S, Burlen-Defranoux O, Soares-da-Silva F, Perchet T, Iturri L, Freyer L, Vieira P, Pereira P, Golub R, et al.(2020). A wave of bipotent T/ILC-restricted progenitors shapes the embryonic thymus microenvironment in a time-dependent manner . Blood.

et al.(2017). Loss of Apela Peptide in Mice Causes Low Penetrance Embryonic Lethality and Defects in Early Mesodermal Derivatives . Cell reports.

Laina Freyer, Christian Schröter, Néstor Saiz, Nadine Schrode, Sonja Nowotschin, Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis(2015). A loss-of-function and H2B-Venus transcriptional reporter allele for Gata6 in mice . BMC Dev Biol. 15. (1). Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

Laina Freyer, Sonja Nowotschin, Melinda K Pirity, Antonio Baldini, Bernice E Morrow(2013). Conditional and constitutive expression of a Tbx1-GFP fusion protein in mice . BMC Developmental Biology. 13. (1). p. 33. Springer Nature

L. Freyer, V. Aggarwal, B. E. Morrow(2011). Dual embryonic origin of the mammalian otic vesicle forming the inner ear . Development. 138. (24). p. 5403--5414. The Company of Biologists

Laina Freyer, Xingyi Guo, Bernice Morrow, Deyou Zheng(2011). Characterization of the past and current duplication activities in the human 22q11.2 region . BMC Genomics. 12. (1). p. 71. Springer Nature

Laina Freyer, Vimla S. Aggarwal, Courtney Carpenter, Jun Liao, Marilena Petti, Bernice E. Morrow(2010). Mesodermal Tbx1 is required for patterning the proximal mandible in mice . Developmental Biology. 344. (2). p. 669--681. Elsevier {BV}

Laina Freyer, Bernice E. Morrow(2010). Canonical Wnt signaling modulates Tbx1, Eya1, and Six1 expression, restricting neurogenesis in the otic vesicle . Dev. Dyn. 239. (6). p. 1708--1722. Wiley-Blackwell

Laina Freyer, Vesna Todorovic, Erin Finnegan, Lior Zilberberg, Mitsuhiko Ota, Daniel B. Rifkin(2010). Long form of latent TGF-β binding protein 1 (Ltbp1L) regulates cardiac valve development . Dev. Dyn. 240. (1). p. 176--187. Wiley-Blackwell

V. Todorovic, D. Frendewey, D. E. Gutstein, Y. Chen, L. Freyer, E. Finnegan, F. Liu, A. Murphy, D. Valenzuela, G. Yancopoulos, et al.(2007). Long form of latent TGF-  binding protein 1 (Ltbp1L) is essential for cardiac outflow tract septation and remodeling . Development. 134. (20). p. 3723--3732. The Company of Biologists

PREPRINT

Laina Freyer and Lorea Iturri and Anne Biton and Elisa Gomez Perdiguero(2020). Overlapping Definitive Progenitor Waves Divide and Conquer to Build a Layered Hematopoietic System . bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory