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Mary Alice Crum

Mary Alice Crum (Mac) previously served as the Laboratory Medicine Division Manager for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. She earned a cum laude B.S. degree from Mercer University and then attended UAB School of Allied Health Sciences to earn a degree in Medical Technology. She worked as supervisor/manager of various laboratory departments including Immunology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Flow Cytometry and Molecular for over 40 years. In 2008 she was selected as employee of the year for UAB campus and hospitals. She is a Registered Medical Technologist and a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists..

Elaine Broussard

Elaine E. Broussard serves as an independent consultant in biological safety, research laboratory safety and quality assurance. She previously served as Executive Director of Research Safety for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She earned a Master’s in Occupational Health & Safety and a Master’s in Education and has over 40 years of experience encompassing academics, biological safety, molecular biology, and clinical and research operation and management. Her publications focus on molecular biology, clinical and research laboratory operations/management, and laboratory safety. She is a Registered Medical Technologist and member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologist and the American Biological Safety Association.

Adam Bosarge

Adam Bosarge obtained his BS degree in Biological Science from Mississippi College in 2014 and then completed his MS degree in Biomedical Science in 2017. In May 2018 Adam joined the Nahm Lab at UAB as a researcher, where he later trained to become a MOPA operator. He joined SunFire Bio in January 2020 and is currently enrolled in his last semester of UAB's MBA program

Medha Manchekar

Medha Manchekar earned her B.Sc. in Life Sciences from Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai, India, and M.Sc. in Life Sciences from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India. She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Science at Auburn University. She was involved in research studying the assembly, secretion, and biology of apolipoprotein B, the major structural protein of LDL, containing lipoproteins at the Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her expertise includes molecular biology, establishing stable mammalian cell lines expressing mutant proteins, protein detection and purification techniques.

Will Winslett

Will Winslett received his B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Montevallo. He began working in the Nahm Lab at UAB in March of 2017, and started at SunFire in 2020.

Mike Frost

Michael R. Frost earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry from The University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K. and a Ph.D. from The University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. Following a post-doctoral position at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, he joined The University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he held both research and faculty positions. Mike has over 25 years of research experience in the fields of molecular biology, proteomics, and microbiology, primarily in assay development and validation. Mike joined SunFire Bio in February 2021.

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