Products Services Citations About Blog Contact Login Search for: Management Team Karen Crawford, PhD, Board Chair Dr. Crawford has over thirty years’ experience in biotechnology. She joined List Labs in 1989 and served as President from 1999 to 2020. She has an extensive background in bacterial fermentation of aerobes and anaerobes, toxin production, and purification. Dr. Crawford led the List Labs team to build and commission a cGMP parenteral toxin drug manufacturing facility where she supervised cGMP production and upstream processing of a clostridial toxin. During her appointment as President of List Labs., Dr. Crawford managed projects providing quality-controlled anthrax and botulinum toxins to a resource repository. In addition, she directed the development of numerous products including Clostri... Read More Stacy Burns-Guydish, PhD, President Dr. Burns-Guydish has over twenty years’ experience in transformative biotechnology applications with pathogenic, therapeutic, and industrial relevant microbes. She developed break-through technologies for bacterial production of a biochemical resulting in intellectual property and patents, scaled up a strict anaerobic fermentation to 100,000L, and developed bioluminescent sensors for real time in vivo imaging. She joined List Labs in 2016 and has directed the development and manufacturing of several different live biotherapeutic and toxin therapeutic drug products for Phase I and II clinical trials. She served as the Vice President of Biotherapeutic Development and Manufacturing contribut... Read More Maggie Tam, Chief Financial Officer Ms. Tam joined List labs as Chief Financial Officer in March 2016. She has twenty plus years of executive global financial management experience in consumer, software and biotech industries, managing finance, operation, international expansion, raising capital as well as merger and acquisitions activities. She has a BS in Finance and MBA from Santa Clara University, SEP certificate from Stanford University, and holds a California CPA license. At List labs, she applies her extensive financial and operation experience to lead the accounting, FP&A, IT, facilities and operation departments to support the rapid growth of the company in recent years. Nancy Shine PhD, Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Shine has been with List Biological Laboratories since 1999 and has been Director of Research and Development since 2007. Her background is in protein chemistry and she has applied that knowledge to the toxins produced at List with a particular focus on the botulinum and anthrax toxins. During her tenure she has designed peptide substrates for various analytical purposes. She designed FRET peptide substrates for four botulinum toxin serotypes (BoNT). She was granted a patent for the substrate specific for BoNTA marketed as SNAPtide® and developed protocols using these peptides for inhibitor screening and detection of low picogram amounts of BoNTA in complex matrices. She also develope... Read More Katharine Shiomoto, Vice President, Quality and Compliance Ms.Shiomoto joined List Laboratories in 2020. She brings over 30 years of Quality Assurance and Program Management experience focused on phase appropriate QMS and product life cycle practices in novel drug development. Her experience includes customized cell and gene therapies, monoclonal antibodies, aerosols, topicals, toxins, device delivery systems, DEA or Select Agent regulated projects and rare diseases. Katharine has successfully transitioned multiple organizations from no infrastructure to establishing best practices and scalable processes to ensure on-time delivery, improved compliance and facilitating the establishment of necessary records to support regulatory filings. She previous... Read More Kent Davis, Senior Director of Manufacturing Kent Davis has over twenty years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry including cGMP platform technologies for monoclonal antibodies, bacterial proteins and live biotherapeutics for Phase I, II and III clinical trials. His background includes process development, technical transfer, manufacturing and operations. Kent serves as a subject matter expert in downstream processing techniques including fermentation harvest (dead-end filtration, TFF and centrifugation), chromatography and UF/DF. He helped to pioneer the design and development of sterile/single-use/disposable supplies and associated equipment for use in the manufacturing of a potential commercial product for a patient-s... Read More Gary Henderson, Director of Business Development and Sales Mr. Henderson joined List in June 2020, bringing over 25 years of biotech sales and business development experience to List Labs. He has introduced disruptive automation technology to the clinical diagnostics market, designed custom consumables for High Throughput automation, and structured contracts with some of the largest commercial and research organizations in the world. He takes tremendous satisfaction in the construction and completion of a well-planned project that propels his customer forward on their trajectory of success. He majored in Business and Economics at CSUH. Linda Eaton, PhD, Board Member Dr. Eaton joined List Labs since 1986 and served as Vice President of Research and Development from 1999 to May 2020. She directed the development of new products including tetanus toxin and botulinum toxins from Clostridia, Francisella tularensis lipopolysaccharide, exotoxin A from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, staphylococcal alpha toxin, and fimbriae 2/3 from Bordetella pertussis. She also assured the development of appropriate quality control methods, provided for scale up and transfers of technology to manufacturing, trains laboratory staff in new processes, assay methods, and safety. Dr. Eaton earned her PhD in Microbiology at the University of Minnesota and her Post-Doctoral degree in Micr... Read More Hans Bigalke, PhD, Board Member Hans Bigalke has been a member of the List Labs Board of Directors since 2000. He has over 40 years experience in bacterial toxins and serves as an advisor on botulinum toxins and tetanus projects. Prof. Bigalke received his graduate training in Medicine at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. He completed residencies in Internal Medicine, Surgery and Psychiatry at the Philips-University at Marburg in 1976. He received his doctoral degree in Pharmacology in 1978. He has been both a Professor and Vice-Chairman of Toxicology at the Medical School of Hannover, Germany, where he directed a research group working on binding characteristics of botulinum toxins. Prof. Bigalke has more than 100 releva... 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