CYNTHIA l. bristow
Cynthia L. Bristow, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, attended The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston where she completed an M.S. in Biometry under the direction of Dr. M. C. Miller, III, and a Ph.D. in Basic and Clinical Immunology and Microbiology under the direction of Dr. Robert J. Boackle and the pioneer immunologist, Dr. H. Hugh Fudenberg.
Bristow served as assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill for several years, completed a clinical fellowship in Medical Laboratory Immunology (CPEP) in UNC Hospitals under the guidance of Dr. James D. Folds, and collaborated on projects with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci resulting in several publications including Blood, 2003, J. Immunol., 2008, and PLoSONE, 2012.
After studying dendritic cells at The Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Dr. Ralph Steinman, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Bristow accepted a position as assistant professor in Medicine at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for four years and assistant professor in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College for three years before stepping down from academic research to pursue development of multiple products focused on the molecular mechanisms involved in how immune cells discriminate foreign material (antigens) from nutrients from inert material (self).
Bristow has been invited to speak at many research institutions including the National Institutes of Health, Duke University Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard University, the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), and at several international meetings and symposia including the XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa (2000), 2nd International Workshop on HIV Persistence, St. Maarten, West Indies (2005), and the International Symposium HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases , Marseille, France (2012).
Bristow has received several professional awards and special recognitions including an award from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation and multiple years of support from the Institute for Human Genetics and Biochemistry funded by the Harry Winston Foundation. She has been recognized as “Woman of the Year,” 2006, American Biographical Institute Board of International Research and recognition by Who's Who in: The World, America, the South and Southwest, American Women, Science and Engineering, Finance and Industry, Medicine and Healthcare.