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All About Addgene
More Open and Reproducible Science with Materials Sharing
About this episode
Dr. Joanne Kamens is the Executive Director of Addgene. In this episode of the Dr. GPCR Vistual Cafe, Joanne will be introducing Addgene. Addgene is a mission-driven, nonprofit dedicated to helping scientists around the world share useful research reagents and data. Addgene has been a Boston Globe Top Place to Work every year since 2016 when it was voted #1. Addgene is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating scientific discovery by enabling the easy, open sharing of high-quality controlled biomaterials. Addgene's collection contains over 95,000 plasmids contributed by 4,300 research labs worldwide including many GPCR related reagents.
Addgene also provides more than 450 ready-to-use AAV and lentivirus vector preparations. With close to 1.5 million materials distributions in 103 countries, Addgene makes huge impacts on the pace and efficiency of science. By authenticating, storing, and distributing plasmids, viruses, and their associated data, Addgene is creating a lasting resource for research and discovery scientists around the world.
About Dr. Joanne Kamens
Joanne received her Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard Medical School then spent 15 years as a researcher and Group Leader in Pharma at BASF/Abbott working on both small molecule and antibody therapies for the immune disease. In 2007 she joined RXi Pharmaceuticals and held lab and business development senior director roles there.
Dr. Kamens has been raising awareness of women scientists since 1998 upon realizing that an entire week had gone by at work and not one other woman had been at any meeting she attended. She founded the current Boston chapter of the Association for Women in Science. She has also facilitated the establishment of dozens of group mentoring programs around the world.
She also serves on a number of other nonprofit boards including as Vice-Chair of the Seeding Labs BoD, advisor to Protocols.io, and the Scismic job board for scientists. She speaks widely on career development, mentoring, and workplace diversity topics in person and via webinars.
Dr. Joanne Kamens on the web
