Dr. Anne Wyllie

Yale School of Public Health

Podcast: The spit queen: How Anne Wyllie is challenging the status quo in clinical testing

Join SelectScience® CEO, Kerry Parker, as she speaks to Dr. Anne Wyllie, also known as ‘The Spit Queen’, about her work in the use of saliva for high-quality, low-cost community surveillance of respiratory pathogens. Wyllie is a research scientist in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health at Yale University. During this conversation, we explore the story behind the development of the SalivaDirect PCR protocol which propelled Wyllie’s global mission of affordable, high-quality testing programs for all communities in need. Discover how the American National Basketball Association helped with this mission and why we should be challenging the status quo in clinical testing.

Listen to the full podcast here: https://thescientistschannel.com/podcast-anne-wyllie.html

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Dr. Anne Wyllie

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Dr. Anne Wyllie, Research Scientist, Yale School of Public Health and Principal Investigator, SalivaDirect More

Dr. Anne Wyllie

Yale School of Public Health

Dr. Anne Wyllie completed a BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Auckland in 2007, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters in Medical Science in 2009 at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre (University of Auckland). Wyllie completed a Ph.D. in medical microbiology in 2016 at Utrecht University. Since early 2020, she has worked as a research scientist in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health at Yale University and she is the Principal Investigator of SalivaDirect.