Presenters

Efi Melista (Senior Field Application Scientist)
Efi is Omixon’s Senior Field Application Scientist in Europe. A geneticist by training who quickly started working on a variety of research projects at Boston University, MA, including studies on the genetic basis of sickle cell anemia disease, β-thalassaemia, cardiac disease, Alzheimer’s disease, PTSD and even longevity. Her love and fascination for technology allowed her to accumulate immense experience in cutting-edge technologies used in genomics and molecular diagnostics, including extensive hands-on work on several Next Generation Sequencing platforms and chemistries.

Marcello Scala (Sales Manager, EMEA & Asia, Omixon)
Marcello is a young and ambitious Sales & Marketing professional, highly passionate about genetics. After living in Shanghai, China, as Business Development Manager for Shanghai GenePharma (an RNAi company), he spent three years within the HLA field as Marketing and Sales Manager for ROSE GenTec Ltd. For Omixon he is responsible for sales to direct customers, within the EMEA and Asian territories. Marcello received a BSc in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Naples “Federico II”, and an MSc in Genetics, with full scholarship from the B.I.O.G.E.M. research centre University of Sannio. He is also currently taking part of the Executive MBA program at the University of West England.