Malaney Young

I'm a drug discovery scientist with a background in chemical engineering and biomedical engineering. My research has been in the preclinical drug discovery and diagnostics area, and I really believe that treating disease and diagnosing disease go hand in hand. If you can diagnose it or really pin down what are the underlying mechanisms of the disease and trace that, that's how you can treat it. We need diagnostic assays to say the disease is there, but we also need them when we're developing treatments to test if our treatments are working. I did my PhD in drug discovery, a postdoc in drug discovery, and then worked more on diagnostics for a cancer research hospital in California. Right now, I work at Eurofins in Indianapolis, which is a third-party organization that supplies scientific services to the pharmaceutical industry. Here, I lead a team of 6 individuals, and we work with the pharmaceutical industry to provide technical services, helping them run their experiments in the preclinical discovery space. I'm also exploring new things in the AI space for drug discovery, which is something I'm working on on the side at the moment. I've been tutoring for about 8 years now because I really love teaching, mentorship, and education.