ABOUT US

Dr. Van der Haegen is Founder & Managing Partner of Cell Culture Solutions. In this capacity since 2002, she has directly coordinated customer projects and provided technical advice and support. By implementing design of experiment tools to cell culture development, she has substantially improved the quality of services provided by the Company. Dr. Van der Haegen has more than thirty years of experience in mammalian cell culture. Her first contact with cell culture occurred as a doctoral fellow under the guidance of Dr. Richard Ham, where she was extensively trained to study cell nutritional requirements in culture. Efforts by Dr. Ham’s team led to pioneering work in serum free medium development and growth of countless primary cells previously inhibited by serum. Dr. Van der Haegen also gained industrial experience while working in biomanufacturing companies. She held R&D management positions at Becton-Dickinson, Sigma-Aldrich, and BioWhittaker, where she coordinated the development and release of new cell culture products for application in the research, diagnostics and biopharmaceutical markets. Previously, as a university faculty member for eighteen years at the University of Sergipe, Brazil, Dr. Van der Haegen specialized in the study of epithelial-stromal interactions, and developed a system for the investigation of mammary epithelial cell growth, differentiation and senescence. Dr. Van der Haegen holds a PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, an MA in Biology from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MD, Pathology from the University of Bahia, Brazil. A business profile of Dr. Van der Haegen is also posted in LinkedIn.

Mr. Martin is also founder and co-Partner of Cell Culture Solutions, where he serves as an instrumentation consultant, assisting customers with the calibration and validation of laboratory instruments. Mr. Martin is a field engineer metrologist with more than thirty-five years of experience with equipment calibration and validation in both the biomanufacturing and defense industries. In his present position as a metrologist for Raytheon Missile Systems, he ensures that support equipment meets all Department of Defense specifications traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (N.I.S.T). Prior to Raytheon, he worked as a consultant for Interim Technology supervising the development of a test plan for the USPS’s Vehicle Tracking Analysis & Performance System. As a member of the Quality Assurance team of BioWhittaker, Inc., he organized a calibration program that met FDA and ISO 9000 requirements for that biomanufacturing company. While at BioWhittaker, Mr. Martin was certified in thermometry by the N.I.S.T. He also served as Laboratory Manager for Electro Rent and Metric Resources and as Lead Electrical Engineer for Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation where he assisted in the ground floor organization and operation of the Kuwait National Metrology Center.