Associate Director
JMI Laboratories
Stephen James Ryan Arends, PhD, Associate Director
Dr. Arends completed his PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship in microbiology at the University of Iowa. He began his antimicrobial research career in 2009 at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where he was a member of the antimicrobial discovery team that progressed multiple scaffolds from HTS screening hits to lead optimization compounds. Dr. Arends joined JMI Laboratories as a research scientist in 2016. In addition to overseeing the production facility’s liquid handling systems, his responsibilities include drug development study designs, data analysis, publication generation, and managing high throughput screening campaigns.