Sam Yenne

Sam has over 25 years of experience in the discovery and development of biologically active compounds. He started his career at Rhone-Poulenc Ag Company (now Bayer Crop Science) in metabolism chemistry where he was responsible for screening compounds for toxic side effects and conducting preclinical experiments. Sam was quickly promoted to Technical Development Manager of Insecticides responsible for expanding market share by launching new products and expanding the label of existing products. At Paradigm Genetics, Sam was responsible for target discovery and the development of high-throughput screening assays for these targets in addition to several preclinical projects for anti-infective compounds. More recently, He has been responsible for identifying active anti-infective compounds and their subsequent preclinical development along with the development of a new virus detection system.