Dr. Jos Paquaij obtained his PhD at the Free University Amsterdam in pharmaco-chemistry and was a post-doc at Université Catholique de Louvain and Maastricht University with major experience in cellular biology, cardiovascular research and in vivo and ex vivo animal testing. He has been teaching chemistry and biology for 5 years at vocational level and developed educative materials for these subjects within the Dutch national consortium for vocational education. He joined CellMade in September 2010.

Myriam Douach holds a Master of Science in Cell Biology from the University of Strasbourg. She is responsible for CellMade’s primary cell production protocols and for developing and investigating inflammatory co-culture cell models. She is also in charge of the development and maintenance of CellMade’s tissue acquisition network. Before joining the company, Myriam worked as a research assistant in cell biology at the “Etablissement Français du Sang”, Strasbourg where she studied immunology. Previous to that, she focused on research into Polyarthritis Rheumatoid and Lyme borreliosis infection at the University Hospital of Strasbourg.

Magalie Bordier, is responsible for establishing protocols in primary cell isolation/culture/characterization, developing 3D inflammatory co-cultures and implementation of client projects. She holds a Master of Science in cell technologies from the University of Poitiers (France) and worked at Solvay Pharma (Dijon, France) for several years, focusing on investigation of nuclear receptors associated with metabolic syndrome, biomarkers identification and management, and implementation of Solvay’s NRA platform applied to drug screening.