Darrick Carter, PhD
Director of Formulations
Darrick Carter is Director of formulations at IDRI, where he applies his experience in the development process necessary to take vaccines and therapeutic candidates from the lab to the clinic. He has participated in the development of vaccines and cancer therapeutics and led the process development of the first recombinant vaccine for tuberculosis. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed papers and is co-inventor on more than 50 patent applications and issued patents.
Dr. Carter was born in Rome, New York, and grew up in the United States and Germany. He received his bachelor of science summa cum laude in 1993 from the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. His PhD was awarded in 1997 by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his work at IDRI, Dr. Carter hosts a web site for protein chemists and has founded a company, Protein Advances Inc., to research the use of artificial intelligence in drug discovery.
- Steven G. Reed, PhD - Senior Vice President, Research & Development, IDRI Founder
- Curtis D. Malloy, JD, MPH - Senior Vice President, Operations & General Counsel
- Jill Ashman, MSc - Senior Clinical Research Manager
- Susan Baldwin, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Anna Marie Beckmann, PhD - Vice President, Development & Regulatory
- Sylvie Bertholet, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Ajay Bhatia, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Darrick Carter, PhD - Director of Formulations
- Allen Casey - Group Leader, High Throughput Screening/Robotics
- James Chesko, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Therese Coad, CPA - Director of Finance
- Jessica Cohen, JD - Assistant General Counsel
- Rhea N. Coler, PhD - Vice President, Preclinical Biology
- Karen D. Cowgill, PhD, MSc - Clinical Research Manager
- Malcolm S. Duthie, PhD - Scientist II
- Yasuyuki Goto, PhD - Scientist I
- Alice Grasset, DVM, MBA - Project Manager
- Randall F Howard, PhD - Project Manager
- Gregory C. Ireton, PhD - Scientist I
- Edward A. Kesicki, PhD - Director, Small-Molecule Drug Discovery
- Karen Kinch - Vice President, Administration
- Joshua Oluoch Odingo, PhD - Director, Chemistry
- Tanya Parish, PhD - Acting Director, Drug Discovery
- Franco M. Piazza, MD, MPH - Medical Director
- Vanitha S. Raman, PhD - Scientist I
- David Roberts, PhD - Scientist I
- Angela Gollnick Schroeder, MBA - Project Manager
- Paul Sleath, PhD - Consultant, Manufacturing
- Robrick Smith - IT Manager
- Thomas Vedvick, PhD - Director, Process Sciences
- Winston Wicomb, PhD, LATG - Senior Scientist / Animal Facility Manager
- Julie Youssef - Human Resources Manager