Allen Casey
Group Leader, High Throughput Screening/Robotics
Allen Casey has 15+ years of experience in small-molecule drug discovery in the biotech industry (Plexera, ICOS, MDS Pharma Services, Panlabs, Western Medical Center and Northwest Hospital). Formerly a technical scientist and manager at ICOS Corporation, he has been involved with high throughput screening (HTS), robotics, bioinformatics, microbiology, cell culture process development and clinical manufacturing. Allen has been creatively involved in engineering many of the instruments and software components used for drug discovery.
Allen joined IDRI in 2008 to manage high throughput screening. He is directing the automation of biochemical as well as cell based assays. Allen received his bachelor's degree in Natural Science/Biology from the University of Washington.
Current research activities
- Engineering IDRI’s High Throughput Screening (HTS) center for M. tuberculosis research.
- Development of whole cell screen for wild-type M. tuberculosis.
- Development of AroD, LysA, PanC and Icl high-throughput assays.
- Development of target-based whole cell screens for protease mutants of M. tuberculosis.
- 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