Francisco Ylera, Ph.D.

Francisco Ylera is the head of the R&D team that generated the Pioneer Antibody Discovery Platform. He has been with Bio-Rad for over 18 years. Francisco has worked on customer antibody generation projects involving design, selection, antibody characterization, and technical support, as well as method optimizations. Francisco holds a diploma in chemistry from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Free University Berlin, Germany. After his Ph.D., he did a postdoc at the Harvard Institute of Medicine, Boston, USA.