Barbara graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with Bachelor’s degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. She started her career in biotech with an internship at BioAtla, where she helped test novel antibody therapeutics for their use as anti-cancer drugs. After a brief stint at a small nutritional supplement company, Barbara returned to BioAtla as Lab Assistant, working on developing the company’s own proprietary cell line for antibody expression. Before coming to Primordial, Barbara was a 1^st Shift Manufacturing Associate at Mesa Biotech, preparing and building SARS-CoV-2 test kits.