Matt Pope

Matt has more than 9 years experience with the SISCAPA team and was the first employee of SISCAPA Assay Technologies. He manages several functions within the company including project, operations, and facilities management. He played a lead role in managing the generation and characterization of SISCAPA antibodies in the NCI Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC) Initiative. This included developing advanced techniques for measuring anti-peptide antibody affinity and associated strategies for selection of high-affinity SISCAPA reagents. Matt has a unique and varied work history including guiding numerous expeditions in the Antarctic and Arctic, leading whale-watching excursions off the coast of Vancouver Island, and worked as a visiting scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.