Omid Karkouti, MS, Research Program Director
Omid joined NF2 BioSolutions as Research Program Director in April 2020. Omid has spent his career as a biotechnology executive focused on accelerating drug development through technology. Since 2018, he has worked as an entrepreneur developing therapeutic pipelines for monogenic diseases and cancer, and is the inventor of a novel gene therapy manufacturing system currently in development. Omid holds a Master of Science in Molecular Virology from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego. Omid is personally connected to the rare disease patient community as a patient advocate for genetic blindness.
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Operations Volunteers Team
Amy Williams, Individual donors relationship and communication Coordinator
Erika Kamen, Deaf & Hard Of Hearing Patient Support Coordinator
Lauren Hanrahan, Media/Awareness & Merchandise Coordinator
Stephanie Ham, Media/Awareness Coordinator
Fabian Schuller, Social Media Coordinator
Julian Staudt, Website Design and Maintenance
Helaine Bader, Newsletter Publisher and Small molecules Research Coordinator
Krizelle Alcantara, International NF2 Relations & Twitter Publisher
Monica Firestone, Facebook fundraiser Coordinator
Ursula DiGiovanni, BSN, R.N., Patient Support and Outreach
Michael Serle, Director of Technology
YL Tan, Press Release Coordinator
Kevin Dougherty, Special Fundraiser Events, Fish4Cure
Nishant Tyagi, Director of Strategy
Nishant Tyagi is a student at the University of Texas at Dallas pursuing a degree in Biology and Healthcare Management. He has two years of experience in designing and researching nanomedical and neurosurgical techniques at University of North Texas and Houston Methodist. Also, he helped implement a leading community advocate program to focus on the social comorbidities of unfunded, Medicare, and Medicaid patients in a large hospital system.