Our Team - The Bioinformatics CRO, Inc.

T. Grant Belgard, MBA, PhD

Chief Scientist and CEO

Grant earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, with joint training at the National Institutes of Health. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, and spent time as a research scientist at Oxford and in the biotech industry. Grant has authored 24 scientific papers, consulted for biotech companies and financiers, and completed an Executive MBA at the Quantic School of Business and Technology. Outside of work, he volunteers for several science and education causes and serves as a trustee of the LSMSA Foundation. More information is available at grantbelgard.com.

Angel Belgard, MS, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Angel joined the team as Chief Medical Officer in 2020 after a gratifying career as an attending physician in the United States Air Force. She received her M.D. from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and completed the integrated civilian/military pediatric residency at Wright State University School of Medicine. Following her medical training, she practiced outpatient, inpatient, and newborn medicine and was heavily involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education. She was an associate professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Angel holds a Master’s of Science in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University, with her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. Outside of work she has a heart for children and enjoys staying connected with friends and family, tangential learning, and instilling a love of learning in her 2 children.

Justin Duplantis, MBA

Director of Operations

Justin has over 15 years of full-cycle project management experience, with Fortune 100 companies, such as CVS and AT&T. He is a talented recruiter and technical trainer, bringing rapid and sustained growth to each company for which he has worked and consulted. He has an undergraduate degree in analytical chemistry and an MBA from LSU. Outside of work, Justin can be found playing hockey or shooting pool.

Márton Münz, PhD

Senior Scientist, Computational Biology

Márton has a PhD (DPhil) in bioinformatics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in physics. With a total of 11 years of experience in the field of clinical bioinformatics, computational biology and software development, Marton has worked on various projects involving high-throughput sequencing: including clinical targeted and whole exome sequencing, immune repertoire sequencing and gene expression microarray analysis. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and worked as a science and culture journalist before embarking on a scientific career.

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