Olga Lomovskaya, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Biology

Dr. Lomovskaya has extensive experience in microbiology and molecular gentetics, antibiotic resistance mechanisms, and drug discovery, and is a leading expert in the field of bacterial efflux pump biology. At Mpex, she is responsible for discovery biology, including lead discovery and optimization. In addition, she is a project leader for the company's IV EPI program. Previously, Dr. Lomovskaya was Associate Director of Biology at Essential Therapeutics (previously Microcide Pharmaceuticals) where she coordinated efforts in the discovery and evaluation of antibiotics and antibiotic potentiators from natural products and synthetic libraries. She received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences and her M.S. in molecular biology from Moscow State University, with research appointments at MIT, Cal Tech and Stanford. Dr. Lomovsksya is an inventor on several patents, authored numerous original papers and review articles and is serving as a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals.