Francine Carland, Ph.D.

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Program Manager
Address: 
600 West Campus Drive, West Haven, CT 06516
+1 (203) 737-3864

Francine is the Program Manager for YCMD (Program in Innovative Therapeutics for Connecticut’s Health (PITCH). Prior to joining YCMD, she was a researcher in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department at Yale studying plant molecular biology. Francine holds a B.S. (cum laude) in Biochemistry from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley where she applied molecular genetic approaches to investigate the plant innate immune system. She has published numerous articles featured in prominent scientific journals, is internationally recognized and brings a wide range of expertise to YCMD.  Having worked in biotech, government and academic sectors, Francine is well positioned to manage the YCMD PITCH program.