Kaury Kucera

Dr. Kaury Kucera is Valisure’s Chief Scientific Officer, where she oversees all lab activities including medication testing and test design. She is a pharmaceutical biochemist with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from the University of Chicago and Yale University. Her studies included natural product medicinal chemistry in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and structure-based drug development and screening in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University. Prior to joining Valisure, Dr. Kucera led a large-scale and multi-year effort by Yale University aimed at discovering new organic compounds from the Amazon rain forest; in that context, Dr. Kucera oversaw the development of hundreds of unique assays.