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San Francisco, California, United States

Stealthy viruses that teach your immune system to kill cancer.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Responsible for overall company operations including program and portfolio management, scientific oversight of activities, budget and planning.
• Created and executed product development strategy including discovery, hit-to-lead, early-phase non-clinical and early clinical phases.
• Build relationships with key opinion leaders and led formation of Scientific Advisory Board.
• Manage internal and external teams across manufacturing, regulatory, R&D, preclinical and clinical development.
• Conceive, draft and lead presentations to company leadership and board of directors.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Oversaw drafting and submission of regulatory filings, clinical trial design, and other critical company functions.
• Directed overall operations including manufacturing, regulatory, R&D, and clinical teams as well as external service providers

Berkeley, CA

YourChoice Therapeutics is revolutionizing the global contraceptive market by developing non-hormonal contraceptives to provide both women and men with birth control options that lack the associated risks of hormone-based options but are equally effective.YourChoice Therapeutics has developed the first ever non-surgical, highly effective non-hormonal.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Built a start-up to rapidly develop a treatment and prophylactic for SARS-CoV-2/ COVID-19
• Raised $6,000,000+ from leading VC firms.
• Quickly developed a team of infectious disease experts to support the development of covid-19 treatment.
• Developed regulatory strategy to rapidly repurpose an FDA approved drug as a treatment.
• Oversaw drafting and submission of pre-IND and IND filings, data monitoring committee, and clinical trial design.
• Ensured project momentum by regular follow-up and holding team members accountable for deliverables

Los Angles

Preclinical stage medical device company focused on developing solutions for disorders of the eye.

Redwood City, California

• Designed, fabricated, tested, and optimized photovoltaic prototype devices based on small-molecule organic semiconductors resulting in highest internal efficiencies to date.
• Designed, synthesized, and tested organic semiconductor materials for integration into organic photovoltaic devices.
• Worked with the technical team to design and integrate PVs with power electronics, circuitry, and other balance of system components in product prototype modules.
• Worked with the Director of Device Development and technical team in preparing grant proposals, intellectual property filings, and reports.

• Research Focus: Energy management in organic photovoltaics (OPVs)(Advisor: Prof Mark E. Thompson)
• Designed and fabricated novel OPVs with open-circuit voltages greater than 1.3 volts, an improvement of 50%.
• Synthesized and characterized the photophysical properties of zinc dipyrrin compounds which undergo symmetry breaking charge transfer
• Utilized multiple chromophores to improve the absorption efficiency of OPVs generating a 30% increase in photocurrent
• Developed a conductive exciton blocking layer based on fullerenes which resulted in a 10% increase in device efficiency
• Maintained laboratory equipment: High-vacuum deposition chamber, Class AAA solar testing station

Education record

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemical Engineering