Felix Risco

Current

Manager Production, Scale up and Automation at Genomica (Zeltia)

Past

Research Director at Vivotecnia Research
Manager HTS Automation Support at GlaxoSmithKline
Leader of Molecular Screening at GlaxoSmithKline

Postdoctoral fellow at Biological Research Centre (CSIC) and Institute of Physical Chemistry (CSIC). Madrid.
Postdoctoral fellow at Neurobiology Laboratory at Experimental Surgical Service. Hospital Puerta de Hierro. Madrid.

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Education

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Connections

35 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Felix Risco’s Summary

Demonstrated ability to manage projects/tasks independently. Demonstrated ability to manage people and resources. Highly adaptable and resourceful with broad base of interest in business and technology. Excellent analytical skills and creative problem-solver with ability to see beyond the norm. Effective team member in both leadership and support roles. Skillful negotiator and ability to balance technical and business competencies. Ability to quickly develop rapport with others of widely varing backgrounds.

Felix Risco’s Specialties:

Deep knowledge of HTS robotic platforms. Automated tracking of HTS processes and data analysis. Extensive experience in assay development & advance detection methods. Scale-up and optimisation of high scale production of reagents, proteins and cells. HTS software tools (information and results flow, automated sample tracking, database organisation and image analysis). Extensive experience biochemistry and molecular biology. Proficient in computer networks and robotics.

Felix Risco’s Experience

Manager Production, Scale up and Automation

Genomica (Zeltia)

(Biotechnology industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)
Research Director

Vivotecnia Research

(Research industry)

June 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 8 months)

Vivotecnia is a preclinical CRO working under GLPs. As Research Director, I'm responsible of the whole "in vitro" research activities of the company including drug discovery, cell culture and microbiology. In addition, I've responsibilities on general process automation as well as internal and external operations and proceedings.
Manager HTS Automation Support

GlaxoSmithKline

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

January 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 9 months)
Leader of Molecular Screening

GlaxoSmithKline

(Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)

January 1996 — December 2000 (5 years )
Postdoctoral fellow

Biological Research Centre (CSIC) and Institute of Physical Chemistry (CSIC). Madrid.

(Government Agency; Research industry)

January 1993 — December 1995 (3 years )
Postdoctoral fellow

Neurobiology Laboratory at Experimental Surgical Service. Hospital Puerta de Hierro. Madrid.

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

January 1991 — December 1992 (2 years )