Education
Graduation

University of Kentucky

Ph.D

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Rick Holtsberg, PhD
VICE PRESIDENT, MANUFACTURING & BIOANALYTICS

Dr. Holtsberg has been intimately involved in the development of vaccines, antibodies, and immunoassays for the infectious disease over the past 12 years.

He oversees protein production and bioanalytics and his team routinely produces large amounts of mAbs and recombinant proteins in multiple expression formats. He also oversees the development and sample analysis of serological and custom analytical assays.

He has over 25 years of experience in industry and academia with extensive experience in protein biochemistry and bioanalytics working at Schering-Plough Research Institute, Polaris Pharmaceuticals, BioVeris and Wellstat Diagnostics. He has overseen setting up a GLP laboratory for testing clinical research samples.

He has published extensively in his work in infectious disease and protein production, including in human clinical trials.