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Proven track record of project and research department management, efficient and timely new product introduction, working with cross-disciplinary teams and as an independent bench scientist. Extensive experience in development of products for cell and molecular biology research and in antibody production and characterization.AnaptysBio Inc., San Diego CA. Associate Director- Protein Expression.Aug 2010-April 2013Responsible for establishing and running the Protein Expression department, supporting internal and partnered therapeutic antibody programs from discovery to lead identification. Project Team Leader for therapeutic antibody discovery and affinity maturation effortsGenVault Corporation, Carlsbad CA, Senior Scientist. Sept 2008-June 2010Led Development of GenCode-ID: a biological bar-coding system in which samples of whole blood or genomic DNA are labeled with unique oligo mixtures for tracking and confirmation of sample identity at any point in the downstream analysis.Showed proof of concept, generated high-quality data for customers.Developed new QC procedure for GenCode-ID reducing failure rate from over 40% to less than 5%.Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad CA. Scientist / Sr. Scientist. 1997-Sept 2008.Responsible for all aspects of new product development including program management & conducting experiments.Planned & executed feasibility studies to assess novel technologies.Established key performance criteria for new products, based on customer requirements & testing of competitor products.Developed program timelines and milestone & ensured they were met.Designed experiments & interpreted data for R&D program teams of up to 8 members.Coordinated R&D activities with other business functions including Operations, Marketing, Technical Writing, Technical Services & Legal.Prepared development reports & data for marketing materials.Communicated data to customers via seminar & poster presentations.Specialties: Mammalian Tissue Culture including transient transfection of suspension & adherent cultures establishment of stable cell lines.Experience with FreeStyle CHO and 293 transient expression systems.Molecular Biology Techniques: vector design & construction, DNA/RNA purification, RT-PCR.Protein Expression & purification from E.coli, Insect & mammalian cells.Cell-based assays, ELISAs, Immunofluorescence & con-focal microscopy. Luminex multiplex flow-cytometry assays..

Listed skills include Molecular Biology, Protein Expression, Assay Development, Cell, and 16 others.