Steve Vasile

Steve Vasile, Ph.D.[Lake Nona in Orlando]

  • Director, High Throughput Screening
  • Research

    Steve establishes screening technologies at the institute.

  • Biography

    Steve received his Ph.D. at Roswell Park Cancer Inst./SUNY at Buffalo and his postdoctoral training at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst.

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Steve Vasile's Research Focus

Steve joined the Sanford-Burnham Institute in October 2003 as Director of High Throughput Screening to establish screening technologies at the institute.  He was instrumental in Sanford-Burnham becoming an NIH comprehensive screening center both in the pilot, as well as production phases of the NIH’s Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. 

About Steve Vasile

Experience

Prior to joining Sanford-Burnham he was at Sugen Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacia). Sugen, a leading signal transduction company, elucidated the human kinome. Dr. Vasile joined Sugen in 1995, where he eventually became co-leader of Discovery Technology. The Discovery Technology department performed assay development, as well as high throughput screening primarily on kinase and phosphatase targets. His team was the first to determine the kinase inhibition properties of Sutent (aka sunitinib malate). This multi-billion dollar drug is marketed by Pfizer for the treatment of renal cancer as well as Gleevec resistant GIST. Dr. Vasile has over 17 years of experience in assay development, high throughput screening and lab automation. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1993 from Roswell Park Cancer Institute/State University of New York at Buffalo, where his doctoral thesis focused on human leukemia antigens. His post-doctoral work was performed at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute where he developed and ran a number of phosphatase screens through Harbor Branch’s extensive library of deep water marine natural product extracts. During his tenure at Harbor Branch he was able to travel multiple times 3000 feet into the abyss aboard their research submersibles.

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