Agne Alminaite, PhD

Agne Alminaite has studied Molecular Biology in Vilnius University (Lithuania) and earned her Ph.D. in Virology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki (Finland). She moved to work as a scientific consultant for the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru. In 2011 Agne joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in Vilnius, Lithuania and after several years in R&D advanced to the role in product management. She is currently the Senior Product Manager for Custom Molecular Biology Products, taking care of the portfolio that includes all the isothermal amplification (LAMP, RCA, RPA) reagents and high fidelity DNA polymerases (Phusion, Platinum SuperFi). She is also leading broad spectrum of product customization projects for molecular diagnostic customers worldwide.