Beena Kadakkuzha, Ph.D.

Scientific Program Manager

Find personalized solutions for diseases.

I hold a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University Texas at Dallas and postdoctoral training in functional genomics and transcriptomics from The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida. I transitioned from a research scientist to the field of research project/program management and at JAX, I am part of a robust team of faculty, software engineers, computational scientists, bioinformaticians, and statistical analysts at the Computational Sciences (CS) department whose mission is to provide the informatics resources and services to JAX’s faculty to conduct research of the highest scientific merit. As a Research Project Manager, I facilitate agile project management approaches to plan, facilitate, execute, and deliver software applications, tools, and platform to solve complex problems in genetics and genomics.

Education and experience

Education

The Scripps Research Institute
Postdoctoral fellow
Adv: Dr. Claes Wahlestedt
2009-2011
Adv: Dr. Sathya Puthanveettil
2011-2015

The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D., Molecular & Cellular Biology
Adv: Dr. Tianbing X
2004-2009

University of Calicut
M.Sc., Biotechnology
2000-2002

Experience

Computational Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory
Research Project Manager
2017-present

Rice University
Project Manager
2015-2017