Shannon Pendergrast's Biography

Shannon Pendergrast, Chief Scientific Officer, Ymir Genomics

Dr. Pendergrast received his PhD from the Rutgers University Waksman Institute of Microbiology in Molecular Genetics, did his post-doctoral training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, and has over 12 years of experience in industry as a Scientist, Executive, and Entrepreneur. Throughout his career Dr. Pendergrast has developed cutting edge methods to further our understanding of biological processes. As a graduate fellow in the lab of Dr. Richard Ebright a post-doctoral research with Dr. Nouria Hernandez and a Senior Principal Investigator at The Archemix Corp he developed a new methods to characterize protein-nucleic acid complexes for research and drug discovery. As CSO of Ymir Genomics LLC he entered the field of Biomarker Discovery and characteristically went right to work developing innovative new methods to improve extracellular biomarker isolation from biofluids. He has published over 30 scientific papers, patents and book chapters and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Circulating Biomarkers.