Luana Ferrara

Luana obtained her Masters degree in Functional Genomics from the University of Trieste, Italy, before completing a Marie Curie funded Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has over 10 years of research experience in the fields of molecular biology, protein biochemistry and structural biology. In 2017, Luana joined Qkine as a Senior Protein Scientist, before progressing to the role of R&D lead in 2021. She designed and optimised purification procedures for growth factors, while managing workloads within the R&D team. Luana became the R&D Manager at Qkine in 2022, overseeing the strategic plan of the R&D pipeline.