Kayla Merritt serves as a Project Manager Associate at Harrington Discovery Institute. As part of the Therapeutics Development Center team, she provides project management support to the Harrington Brain Health Medicines Center program.
Kayla’s background includes holding a Laboratory Manager position at Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute where she assisted the principal investigator to establish a new laboratory for influenza research. She was responsible for maintaining supply inventory, equipment calibration/management, adhering to writing/editing safety protocols, conducting quarterly and annual safety training and while seamlessly managing communication between PI, various research teams and Cleveland Clinic research administration.
At Cleveland Diagnostics, Kayla served as an Associate Scientist on their research and development team. Her primary role was to identify key early breast cancer targets and help identify a notable assay for early-stage breast cancer diagnostics. She also aided with FDA clinical studies, provided input into GMP quality in-house control manufacturing and editing control validation procedures.
Kayla holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology, with a chemistry and psychology minor and Master of Science in Biology from Cleveland State University.