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Jackie von Salm

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Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Psilera

Greater Tampa Bay Area

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Jackie von Salm is a natural products chemist and the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Psilera Inc. Her research has spanned natural product chemistry, metabolomics, and antibiotics, including a publication on new antibiotics from Antarctic marine sponges that was named the American Chemical Society's Most Read in 2017, and she later focused on central nervous system pharmaceuticals for mental health, neurodegeneration, and addiction disorders. She has received the 2019 Cosmic Sister Emerging Voices Award and the 2020 ACS ElSohly Award, with her work featured in the Wall Street Journal, Nature, and National Geographic.

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Psilera

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Co-founders at Psilera

JL
Jacqueline Lee SalmExecutive Officer
CWChris Witowski
Chris WitowskiCo-Founder & CEO

Experience

  1. Psilera Inc.Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officercurrent2019 — presentTampa, Florida, United States
  2. AltMed EnterprisesDirector, Research and Development2018 — 2020
  3. AltMed EnterprisesLaboratory Director2017 — 2018
  4. Bend BioscienceFormulation Scientist2017
  5. USF Center for Drug Discovery and InnovationLaboratory Manager2016 — 2017
  6. Simon Fraser UniversityPostdoctoral Research Fellow2016British Columbia, Canada
  7. University of South FloridaGraduate Researcher2012 — 2016
  8. University of South FloridaUndergraduate Researcher2009 — 2011

Skills & more

NMR16Drug Discovery18Spectroscopy15UV/Vis9HPLC12Mass Spectrometry11Laboratory6Natural Products5Organic Synthesis5Gas Chromatography4Organic Chemistry3Microbiology5
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Languages English · German · Japanese

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Who is Jackie von Salm?
Jackie von Salm is a natural products chemist and the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Psilera Inc. Her research has spanned natural product chemistry, metabolomics, and antibiotics, including a publication on new antibiotics from Antarctic marine sponges that was named the American Chemical Society's Most Read in 2017, and she later focused on central nervous system pharmaceuticals for mental health, neurodegeneration, and addiction disorders. She has received the 2019 Cosmic Sister Emerging Voices Award and the 2020 ACS ElSohly Award, with her work featured in the Wall Street Journal, Nature, and National Geographic.
Where does Jackie von Salm work?
Jackie von Salm is Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Psilera.
What companies did Jackie von Salm found?
Jackie von Salm founded Psilera.
Where did Jackie von Salm go to school?
Jackie von Salm studied at University of South Florida (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry); University of South Florida (Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry).

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