Dr. Michelle Backman, Ph.D

It takes a remarkable combination of intelligence, dedication and willpower to make it through NYU’s five year MD/Ph.D. program in one piece. It takes something entirely inhuman to do it in four years. Fortunately for her, inhuman is precisely what Michelle Backman has become. Always driven to excel, she took the process a bit too far and ended up hosting a spirit of pure, twisted ambition. Now, the entity that was (and still mostly is) Michelle is one of the leading researchers in the dreaded secret labs. She’s worked her way up from new hire to star performer, in the process perfecting the pheromone traps that Endron puts along its pipelines along with other, more esoteric innovations. She’s also killed at least three immediate supervisors, though ever the conscientious scientist, she managed to utilize the cadavers in her research. Indeed, her efficiency at disposing of the bodies can only be matched by the efficiency with which she put those bodies to use. However, all reports agree that Backman’s promotions in such tragic circumstances generally bring results. If nothing else, the surviving researchers tend to work much harder for her than they do for anyone else. At the moment, Backman is the second most senior researcher in her division. Currently, she’s working on ways to turn oil-eating bacteria into disease-causing organisms, though she has a few “personal” projects going as well. In the 31 meantime, other Endron researchers clamor for the right to be in Backman’s lab. She always has the best equipment, the most funding and the most interesting work for junior researchers to do. After all, there’s something to be said for being the one even senior management is afraid of.