Axxam Appoints Dr. Tod Flak as Head of Screening Technologies

Dr. Tod Flak (PhD) has been appointed Head of the Screening Technologies group for Axxam. Since 2002, Dr. Flak’s role at Axxam was as a senior researcher in the Bioinformatics group
Prior to Axxam, Dr. Flak worked with several biotechnology companies in San Francisco, California, USA. He has broad technology experience including the development of robotic automation for biological assays and chemical synthesis, the development of software to support laboratory research, and the development and administration of databases for laboratory information management and chemical registration.
Dr. Flak received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; and a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His postdoctoral training was at the genome sequencing facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, USA.