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🙋🏻‍♀️ 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. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 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). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 3723--3732. The Company of Biologists

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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