About

May Pidding, PhD, is the Director of Global Strategic Microneedle Array Patch Product Management at LTS. She has responsibility for strategic direction and partner engagement for LTS’s microneedle array patch portfolio. Dr Pidding earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Boston University (MA, US) and completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California (San Diego, CA, US). She began her career at Ichor Medical Systems as a researcher and project lead, focusing on adapting electroporation technology for in vivo delivery of plasmid DNA into muscle tissue.

She later spent two years at Invitrogen Corporation before returning to Ichor to lead the company’s business development efforts. Over the course of 16 years in business development at Ichor, Dr Pidding supported partnerships across vaccines, immunotherapies and nucleic acid-based modalities. She joined LTS in 2021 to expand the company’s outreach across North America and to support growth across its technology platforms. Dr Pidding assumed her current role in 2023.