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Jacob Gano
Head of Antibody Engineering,
Protillion Biosciences
Jacob Gano is leading the antibody engineering efforts at Protillion Biosciences in Carlsbad, CA. Protillion is leveraging their massively parallel antibody screening platform technology that can simultaneously determine Kd for millions of antibodies in a single experiment. He earned his PhD at the University of Washington in functional proteomics and enzyme engineering. Since then, has enjoyed a 15-year career in the field of protein and antibody engineering working on projects involving diverse scaffolds such as scFv, fibronectin domains VHH, single domain antibodies and conventional IgG. He has extensive experience in antibody discovery, lead optimization through to early lead molecule development.