Gladys Keitany, PhD

Associate Director, BCR/Antibody Discovery at Adaptive Biotechnologies

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Gladys Keitany, PhD, is an immunologist with over 15 years of experience and an expert in B cell Biology and antibody discovery. Her role at adaptive has associate director of antibody discovery is focused on identifying rare highly potent antibodies to both infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases using adaptive high throughput pairseg technology. Gladys earned her PhD in pathobiology and parasitology from University of Washington in Seattle, WA, working on identifying vaccine candidates in malaria. She later did her postdoc on development of antigen specific B cells and impact of drug treatment in the liver stage of malaria parasite.