Erin Davis

Director of Lab Operations

Erin is a longstanding veteran of Melior having first joined the company in 2008. Over the years she has risen to a managerial role to where she now serves as the Director of Laboratory Operations. With Melior’s broad range of animal models and busy schedule involving multiple studies being conducted in parallel at any given time, coordination of staff schedules and facility resource requires a person serving as point of accountability who has special talent. In addition to having developed a high skill level and aptitude for conducting most of the models that Melior runs, Erin also has excellent organization and leadership skills that make her ideally suited for this role.

Her additional achievements include establishment and validation of several new animal models at Melior, keen data analysis and interpretation skills, as well as a talent for presenting information.

Erin came to Melior with several years of pharmaceutical industry experience encompassing both preclinical and clinical fields of research. These years include work at Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline where she conducted in vivo studies in the areas pain, inflammation, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal and neurodegenerative diseases as well as pharmacokinetic evaluations and GLP safety studies in several species. She Graduated from West Chester University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Outside of work Erin is an avid CrossFit athlete and a proud mother.

We chose Melior Discovery because they were responsive and cost effective. We are staying with them as a chosen scientific partner because of their thoughtful scientific input to experimental design and attention to detail. Their expertise and flexibility allowed us to quickly adapt the study design and evaluate additional outcome measures to pursue unexpected activity.
Sridharan Rajamani, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Gilead Sciences
I have been working with Melior on a number of projects over the course of a few years now. They have been a great partner throughout this time. The scientists whom I have worked with have been great problem-solvers and were customer focused.
Jay Lichter
Avalon Ventures
Melior provided State-of-the-art Preclinical Pharmacology Support for a period of nearly a year where a series of in vivo studies were completed on a weekly basis. The staff was extremely user-friendly and the operational processes were excellent. I can recommend Melior without reservation.
Richard DiMarchi, PhD
Cox Professor of Chemistry & Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences Indiana University, Department of Chemistry
Because Melior could do the orthotopic intracranial implants, we were able to do survival studies with brain tumor-bearing animals that were treated with our therapy, showing a beautiful survival with our agent versus control. Talk about something that gets your investors going! These beautiful survival curves with our agent versus control and visual photos are in all of our investor decks because… it's powerful.
Bruce Ruggeri, Ph.D.
Modifi Bio
Melior works in many therapeutic areas, like CNS, inflammatory disease, GI, cardiovascular, and oncology. I was very pleased that when it came to doing tumor studies, both subcutaneous and intracranial, they did them well. They reported on the studies on time and did the data analysis really well.
Bruce Ruggeri, Ph.D.
Modifi Bio
Their areas of expertise are extensive, and they are very experienced, responsive, and flexible in terms of how the study is run. Their pricing is reasonable, making them the best option for a young, not well-funded company like ours.
Maxine Gowen
Tamuro Bio
Melior’s team was very experienced and knowledgeable. They were always very open to suggestions and questions, spending a lot of time helping us feel comfortable with the study design. I would give them very high marks.
Maxine Gowen
Tamuro Bio
The most important factors in choosing to work with Melior were the fit between the tests they could run and our needs, as well as their tight budget and proximity. Melior was the best fit for our research goals.
Ira Spector
SFA Therapeutics