Janice received her BS in Biological Sciences and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Pittsburgh. She has worked in R&D in both academia and industry ranging from environmental virology to developing and validating qPCR platforms. She then stepped into a Quality Engineer role at Thermo Fisher Scientific for research use only and medical device products. Currently, she is on the DNA Assembly team supporting efforts to develop and implement a DNA production platform.