Hua Mao, MD, PhD
Head, Drug Discovery and Biology
Dr. Mao is responsible for leading BioTechPlex's Drug Discovery Center in San Diego . She is currently developing an epithelial cell bank, a new generation of high-content, high-throughput cell-based drug screening systems and other technologies related to drug discovery. Dr. Mao's R&D efforts include sensors, bio-optics, molecular biology, and cellular/molecular engineering. Prior to joining BioTechPlex, Dr. Mao was a research scientist at Nanogen. She is dexterous with many advanced biomedical engineering techniques including Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication and application development, microprocessor-based digital signal processing, and the design of electro-optical and bio-optical systems for fluorescence detection. She has applied these advanced technologies to investigate receptor-mediated signal transduction mechanisms in cell cultures. Dr. Mao received her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago . She also holds a MD degree from Shanghai Medical University .
