Kristen Nailor

Kristen Nailor is a Senior Principal Scientific Manager at Genentech in South San Francisco, CA, where she leads both the Compound Management and Biologics Sample Management groups. Her career began at GlaxoSmithKline, spending seven years as a medicinal chemist before transitioning to sample management in 2010 to head Compound Management at Vanderbilt University. During her nearly five-year tenure at Vanderbilt, she established a robust facility and operational workflows supporting diverse academic drug discovery initiatives and industry collaborations. In 2014, she joined the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, leading the La Jolla-based Compound Logistics team. Kristen joined Genentech in 2017 to lead the Biologics Sample Management group. In this role, she has championed the expansion and elevation of biological and new modality sample and reagent management to match the throughput, efficiency, and impact traditionally associated with small-molecule compound