Associate Principal Scientist, Pharmacokinetics
Merck & Co., Inc.
Dr. Krisna Duong-Ly, PhD, is currently an Associate Principal Scientist at Merck in the Regulated Bioanalytics group. In this role, she conducts critical reagent characterization in support of pharmacokinetic and immunogenicity assay development. Dr. Duong-Ly also provides scientific oversight of critical reagent generation for several biologics and vaccine programs. Prior to joining Merck, she developed extensive experience in the fields of protein biochemistry and assay development. Dr. Duong-Ly received a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where she developed expression and purification methods for difficult-to-express proteins and determined several high-resolution X-ray crystal structures. Afterwards, Dr. Duong-Ly completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fox Chase Cancer Center where she applied her training in structural biology to studying kinase inhibitor selectivity and a kinase-regulated macromolecular complex involved in nucleotide metabolism. Dr. Duong-Ly then transitioned to supporting early discovery programs at Janssen R&D where she conducted high-throughput biochemical, cell-based, and biophysical characterization assays.