Heather Branscome's Biography

Heather Branscome, Research Assistant, ATCC and George Mason University

Heather Branscome earned both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biosciences from George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the advanced purification of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and the functional analysis of stem cell EVs in the context of CNS repair. She began her career at the American Type Culture Collection in 2007 and has over 14 years of cross-functional experience in both cell and molecular biology. She is well-versed in large-scale biomanufacturing, exosomes/extracellular vesicles isolation, iPSCs and their derivatives, and cell-based assays.