• 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 worth nearly $140K.• 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 for surgical technique.• Clinically oriented: Established proof-of-principle for innovative gene therapy strategy after identifying disease modifiers in a novel model of Alzheimer’s circuit dysfunction.

•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