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Kelly Sillence

Kelly Sillence

Regional Application Specialist ddPCR , Bio-Rad Laboratories

Kelly gained a degree in Biomedical Sciences, followed by a PhD in medical genetics at Plymouth University. Her doctoral work was focused on cell-free DNA enrichment for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).

During this time, she used qPCR, ddPCR and sequencing to analyse foetal DNA extracted from maternal blood samples. She then did a 1-year post-doc on Rh blood group genotyping using sequencing and ddPCR.

She has worked for Bio-Rad in 2017, first as the North UK Field Application Specialist for Genomics and since 2021 as the ddPCR Regional Application Specialist for Northern Europe 

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