Dr. Ashlee Valente is our newest hire at Mimetics. Dr. Valente earned her B.S. and M.S. in Bioinformatics at Rochester Institute in Technology and completed her doctoral studies at Duke University in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Ashlee’s doctoral thesis work focused on the development of statistical models to improve computational pre-processing of transcriptomics and proteomics data. During her postdoctoral work, Ashlee worked extensively on applied biomarker discovery. She has extensive experience building predictive models for clinical outcomes in infectious disease and biopolymer exposure in transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics data. Dr. Valente brings with her an enthusiastic pursuit of leveraging this type of data via quantitative systems biology to advance understanding of biological mechanisms.

We are pleased to announce that the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park has presented Mimetics with a top tier technology award from its Small Business Research Loan program. Funds associated with this award will go towards supporting Mimetics’ work in creating new ways of culturing pathogenic organisms and developing new systems and devices for improving commercial fermentation processes. Mimetics was chosen from a large field of extremely strong companies, and we would like to thank the NC Biotech Center for this award, as well as all of the people that have supported us in working towards this accolade.