The NextRNA Team

NextRNA Leadership
NextRNA Team

JS Cleiftie, MS, MBA
CBO & Head of Finance

Alejandra Raimondi
VP, Head of Biology

Sara LaFleur
Senior Executive Assistant to the CEO

Dominique Verhelle, PhD, MBA
Co-Founder, CEO & CSO

Kerry McGrath, CPA, MS
Controller/Director of Finance

Matthew Jones
Senior Director, Head of Portfolio Management

Dorothy Brach
Senior Scientist, Biology

Spencer Truesdell, MEng
Associate Scientist, Biology

Sean Buchanan, PhD
Director, Biology

Franz Gruswitz, PhD
Senior Director of RNA & Protein Sciences

Lalit K. Sharma, PhD
Director, Chemistry

Andrey Dobroff, PhD
Principal Scientist, Target Validation

Bhalchandra Rao, PhD
Senior Scientist II, Biology

Zori Vargas
Senior Research Associate I

Lina Freitas, PhD
Senior Operations Manager

Ahmed Said
Senior Scientist II, Chemistry

Rachel Utama
Computational Biology Co-Op

Alex Bartlett, MS
Scientist I, Computational Biology

Joe Matarlo, PhD
Senior Scientist, RNA and Protein Sciences

Nilesh Amatya, PhD
Senior Scientist, Biology

Maya Rao, PhD
SENIOR SCIENTIST, RNA AND PROTEIN SCIENCES

Simarjot S. Pabla, PhD
Associate Director, Computational Biology

Lorena Pantano, PhD
Director, Head of Computational Biology

Adam Daniels
Platform Technology Co-Op

Jason Katz, PhD
VP, Head of Drug Discovery