Andre A. Teixeira PhD

Andre is a Scientist with the New Mexico Consortium and closely collaborates with Specifica on antibody library technology research, and the application of next-generation sequencing to antibody discovery. Andre is a pharmacist and has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, a degree conferred by the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). He has experience in the design and engineering of phage display libraries, and also in software development for the analysis of large datasets generated by next-generation sequencing.

Andre's main research focus was always protein-protein interactions, having worked and authored papers related to the subject in the fields of computational chemistry, neglected diseases, and cancer. He was awarded three fellowships from the Sao Paulo Research Foundation during his scientific training. Andre was a founder and served as president of the non-profit pharmaceutical consulting company of the Pharmacy School of the University of Sao Paulo.