Janelle Salkowitz-Bokal, MBA, PhD

Dr. Janelle Salkowitz-Bokal joined Labcorp Drug Development’s flow cytometry team as a staff scientist in 2013, after a 23-year-long career in HIV clinical trials, HIV small molecules that blocked integration and HIV vaccines. Janelle began supervising the targeted cell isolation team in 2014 due to her extensive experience in peripheral cell mononuclear cell isolation. In her current role as principal scientist, she leads a highly technical group that performs cellular isolation from bodily fluids, including anticoagulated whole blood, bone marrow aspirate, cerebral spinal fluid, ascites/plural fluid and vitreous fluid of the eye. The team also uses flow cytometry to analyze absolute cell counts, viability, purity of the immunomagnetic isolations and contaminants.

Janelle received her bachelor’s degree in microbiology from The Ohio State University, her master’s degree and doctorate in pathology from Case Western Reserve University and her MBA with an emphasis in management from The University of Texas at El Paso. She recently started an MSL program for STEM in law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.