Kevin Curran PhD

AI-driven drug discovery startup focused on finding novel targets and binding sites related to oncology....and also applying similar tools to less crowded indications.

Biotech consulting firm: focused on AI/Drug Discovery, education and advisory services. Science communication for life science industry - Design, build and teach courses on emerging trends in pharma/biotech - Current focus on AI and drug discovery Recent clients: Vector BioMed, Healthpeak Properties, Caring Cross, Genentech, Biogen, J&J

- Deliver 2-day seminars on the science behind biologic drugs - Build customized courses for biotech/pharma companies - Teach open enrollment courses in SF, San Diego, Seattle, British Columbia Recent clients include: SeaGen, Ely Lilly, CIRM, Emergent Biosystems, Biocom, Genentech

Caring Cross is focused on broadening patient access to cell/gene therapies, specifically lentiviral based CAR-T. I produced technology seminars on cell and gene therapies.

Taught Cell Biology, Pre-med animal physiology and Ethnobotany courses at USD. Led a botany research program: examining medicinal properties of native Sonoran desert plants

Worked in the field of behavioral neuroscience. I spent three years analyzing the manner serotonin modulates neural circuits in a small invertebrate animal.

Generation of cardiac myocytes from murine embryonic stem cells Employing stem cell culture techniques, I modulated media conditions to increase the percentage of cardiac myocte cells in developing tissues.

Analysis of patterns of apoptosis in developing mouse embryos and pancreatic islets -Focus on immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy

Stem cell development in early vertebrate brains....focused on transcription factor activity that drives neuron, glial and pigment cell differentiation.