Dr. Seid has over fifteen years experience working in the Biotechnology field in areas ranging from basic research to process development, biomanufacturing, and molecular services. Dr. Seid held the title Research Scientist at Zonagen, Inc., a reproductive healthcare company located in the Woodlands, Texas.  At Zonagen, Dr. Seid was part of a team responsible for cloning and expression of genes involved in fertility to investigate utility as contraceptive vaccines.  Dr. Seid held the title of Protein Scientist at Regeneration Technologies, a tissue engineering company located in Alachua, Florida. At RTI, Dr. Seid provided R&D, Process Development, and Manufacturing support. In addition, Dr. Seid was a member of a group at RTI awarded a NIST-ATP grant to investigate the use of demineralized bone as a DNA delivery system. Dr. Seid held the title Technical Manager of the Molecular Genomics- Bioproduction group while at the American Type Culture Collection. In this position, Dr. Seid provided oversight on the manufacturing activities for the Molecular Genomics collection and robotics laboratory.  Dr. Seid is currently a Study Director for a molecular and genomic services provider to the Biotechnology, Academic, and Pharmaceutical community. In this role, Dr. Seid provides consultation services, project management, and study oversight for cell bank characterization studies for regulatory submission.

Dr. Seid partners with client companies in the areas of:

• Recombinant pharmaceuticals/ recombinant vaccine development.
• Cell culture, fermentation and Bioreactor cell expansion.
• Cell bank construction, protein expression and optimization, protein purification, and scale up.
• Cell bank characterization in support of regulatory submission.
• Regulatory project management to ensure all data and project documentation follow regulatory guidelines (GLP, cGMP, CLIA).
• Process/ method verification, optimization and validation.
• Regulatory/ QA documentation practices (study protocols, planned deviations, change control, OOS, CAPA, raw material qualification)