Caleb Wood, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Strong communication skills: Presented at 9 state, national, and international disease-focused conferences to MDs and PhDs alike resulting in 3 poster and oral presentation awards. Awarded competitive NIH fellowship.
• Adept project manager: Co-authored 7 manuscripts across 4 independent projects through intra-laboratory and 2 intra-institutional collaborations.
• Focus on compliance: Interfaced with HCPs for compliance inspections, wrote animal welfare protocols, ensured strict lab member adherence, and trained 14 trainees in proper aseptic surgical technique on mice.
• Quick to learn: Lectured on cutting-edge pre-clinical research in Alzheimer’s focused journal club to 4 labs of 30+ people. Self-taught next-generation sequencing analysis that led to 4 publications.
• Dedicated mentor: Bench mentor to 5 graduate, post-baccalaureate, and undergraduate students leading to successful research projects and academic careers. Nationally certified research mentor. Lab training ambassador.
• Clinically oriented: Established proof-of-principle for innovative gene therapy strategy after identifying disease modifiers in a novel model of Alzheimer’s circuit dysfunction.

Houston, TX

• Interfaced with key opinion leaders to report development progress and integrate expert feedback into commercialization plan
• Developed scientific platforms to highlight competitive advantages relative to therapeutic landscape that was integrated into outward facing investor reports and presentations
• Performed competitive market analysis then presented to senior managers and other key medical experts

• Compliance: Ensured legal, safety, and best lab practices for 8+ post-docs, graduate students, and undergrads.
• Project manager: oversaw 500+ animal colony husbandry and welfare matching animal supply with experimental demands. Tracked laboratory inventory, budgeting, and spending to ensure project demands were met.
• Balanced experimental research: Executed research project alongside administrative duties leading to multiple poster presentations.

• Led a team of undergraduates conducting a therapeutic drug study in an ALS mouse model
• Performed motor behavioral assays, survival analysis, and immunohistochemistry to determine effect of anti-aging treatments in mouse models of disease
• Learned skeletal muscle dissection and confocal imaging to measure neuromuscular junction degeneration with age

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General