Dr Terry Riss

Dr. Terry Riss started the Cell Biology program at Promega Corporation in 1990 and held several R&D and Project Management positions since. Dr. Riss managed development of cell viability, cytotoxicity, apoptosis, and protease assay systems and also lead efforts to identify and promote multiplexing of cell-based assays to determine the mechanism of cell death. Dr. Riss now serves as Senior Product Specialist, Cell Health involved in outreach educational training activities including validating assay systems applied to 3D cell culture models. Dr. Riss regularly participates in NIH study sections reviewing HTS grants and is Associate Editor of the cell health assays section of the Assay Guidance Manual hosted by NIH.