Dr. Alan Smith is a Senior Research Scientist focusing on computational biology, bioinformatics, and chemoinformatics to generate predictive models. Dr. Smith was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Dr. Gabriela Cezar's laboratory where he developed laboratory methods for metabolomics of cell culture and tissue based experiments as well as a metabolomics data analysis pipeline. Dr. Smith completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Biology at Purdue University and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics. His expertise is in epigenetics, metabolomics, and computational biology.

April M. Weir-Hauptman attended the University of Pittsburgh for her undergraduate education. There, she performed research in the Cell Biology and Physiology Department of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center under the guidance of Dr. Robert Bridges. Her research focused on the molecular biology of epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and its role in Cystic Fibrosis. April graduated in 2005 from the University of Pittsburgh with an ACS-certified Bachelors Degree in Chemistry with a focus on Biological Sciences.

Dr. Burr Fontaine joined Stemina Biomarker Discovery in 2009 as a Bioinformatics Research Scientist. With more than 15 years of experience in integrated bioinformatics support on a range of medical research projects, his primary focus at Stemina is providing bioinformatics, statistical analysis and programming support for research and development in metabolomics and mass spectrometry. Dr. Fontaine earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin and holds two Masters degrees in medical informatics and bioinformatics. He has also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in bioinformatics and computational biology.

In December of 2007, James graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. James joined Stemina Biomarker Discovery in August of 2008 as a lab technician. His responsibilities include maintaining the human embryonic stem cell lines, performing cell culture experiments and maintaining general laboratory duties.

Kevin Conard’s now 20-year research career began in environmental chemistry and after further work in phase I/II vaccine formulation and hESC MS proteomics, he joined Stemina as a scientist in BioAnalytical Chemistry. Kevin’s has extensive experience in most forms of instrumentational analysis, assay development and validation, and facilities management. He is also well versed in cGLP, cGMP and EPA-regulated environments. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.