Jana L. Markley

Jana L. Markley is a Senior Scientist II at AbbVie, with experience as a medicinal chemist focused on exploratory and hit-to-lead campaigns in drug discovery. Prior to joining AbbVie in May 2019, Jana served as a W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Washington University in St. Louis, where research centered on the study and inhibition of tetracycline-inactivating enzymes. Jana's academic background includes a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from The University of Kansas, where involvement as a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant encompassed research in synthetic organic methods and scientific writing. Educational foundation also includes a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University, where undergraduate research involved the identification of natural mercury chelators.