Benoit Laffont Email & Phone Number

Quebec, Canada

Laval, Quebec, Canada

• Company: CitoxLab North America, Laval, Canada – Immunology Department• Projects: Pre-Clinical study on vaccine biodistribution in rat tissues; Pre-Clinical study on vaccine shedding in rat excreta.• Expertise: Coordination of testing planning and molecular biology laboratory activities; Writing of Validation Plans and Reports; Writing of procedures; Data analysis and reporting; …

Montreal, Canada Area

• Company: Jubilant DraxImage, Montreal, Canada – QC Department• Project: Quality Control of medical devices (RUBY-FILL®)• Expertise: Writing of procedures and report; Writing of deviations; Execution of quality control testing; Leading of investigations…

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Company: GSK-Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium – QC Technology Transfer Department• Project: Analytical methods transfer and reagents production and bridging within the Nimenrix Divestment between GSK-V and Pfizer• Expertise: Writing of Technical Transfer Plan, Writing of Analytical Method Transfer Protocols and Reports; Writing of gap assessment on QC analytical methods; Receiving site support to solve technical and scientific issues; Coordination of QC reagents and material shipments to the receiving site; Transfer acceptance criteria definition and statistical analysis of equivalence between donor and receiving sites; Joblists review …• Technical skills: QC testing analytical methods involved in Nimenrix production such as ELISA assays ; HPLC based assays ; Colorimetric assays …

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Project : Necroptosis regulation during atherosclerosis development• Expertise : Conception, leading and execution of research project ; Method/Technique development; Scientific communication ; Scientific and technologic monitoring ; Writing of scientific manuscripts, abstracts and grant applications ; …• Technical skills : qPCR ; ELISA ; CRISPR-Cas9 ; Western Blot ; Mice handling ; Viability assays; Cholesterol efflux assay ; Cloning ; Site-directed mutagenesis ; Primary human and murine cells isolation and culture ; Immunohistochemistry ; Radioactivity (3H) ;…• Post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Quebec, Canada

• Project : Study of extra-platelet role of microRNAs• Expertise : Conception, leading and execution of research project ; Method/Technique development; Scientific communication ; Scientific and technologic monitoring;…• Technical skills : qPCR ; Micro-array ; Confocal microscopy ; ELISA ; Flow cytometry ; HPLC ; Western Blot ; Northern blot ; siRNAs; Gene reporter assays; Viability assays; Cloning ; Site-directed mutagenesis ; Human monocytes and platelets isolation ; Extracellular vesicles isolation; co-culture ;…• Best oral presentation and scientific publication prizes• Ph.D fellowship from the Canadian Blood Services

Quebec, Canada

Montpellier, France

• Mission : Development and validation of an ELOSA test for Hepatitis C Virus genotyping (multidisciplinary project with physicists and chemists)• Expertise : Writing of scientific reports and standard working instructions in compliance with GMP ; Scientific communication ; Interaction and collaboration with other departments• Technical skills : ELOSA ; DELFIA ; Nucleic acid isolation and purification ; qPCR; Primer design; Genotyping; …• Main Result : Development of a standard method now use into routine

Montpellier, France

• Project : Technical optimization and validation to detect pathologic prion protein in blood • Expertise : Writing of scientific reports and standard working instructions in compliance with GMP ; Scientific communication ; Interaction and collaboration with other departments• Techniques : PMCA (Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification) ; Western Blot ; ELISA ; qPCR ; Genotyping ; Primary cells isolation from blood ; …

Ph.D, Cellular And Molecular Biology

Study of extra-platelet role of microRNAs

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biochemistry

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Biotechnology

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry

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