Catherine Simpson, Ms, Mpm, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Managing a $2.4 Million dollar grant to support the implementation and evaluation of best practices in medication optimization in primary care to accelerate practice transformation in pharmacy.
• Facilitate quality improvement through recognizing areas of improvement in processes and efficiencies. Formulate new ideas and directions, and develop and implement new strategies and procedures.
• Monitor, control and reconcile departmental and program budgets, track office expenditures, and create budgets.
• Effectively communicate with over 60 project stakeholders both internal and external through various means of medium on a regular basis to ensure project objects are carried out on time and on budget.
• Track and manage project tasks, budget and resources using Excel and Microsoft Project.
• Lead complex collaborative efforts to achieve desired outcomes, develop and implement administrative management policies, plan needs, multitask and prioritize responsibilities.

UNC Chapel Hill

• Multidisciplinary projects taken from initiation to close out. Project teams ranged from 10 to 30 scientific professionals with budgets ranging from 500K to 3M dollars. Initiation:
• Developed business case for projects to find new drugs for prospective targets.
• Identified stakeholders.
• Identified internal/external resources.
• Defined project objectives and create preliminary scope statement.
• Generated risk assessments and stratification.

University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

• First Research Scientist aboard. Produced a working lab for Biochemical and Tissue Culture applications.Assay Development
• Developed, validated and implemented both cell-based and biochemical in vitro assays to determine potential drug leads in a high throughput format across many therapeutic areas.
• Assay technologies include but not limited to: HTRF, AlphaScreen, ELISA, FP, Caliper EZ-reader microfluidic mobility shift assay, FLIPR, PathHunter® eXpress β-Arrestin GPCR Assay, luminescence and fluorescence.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, evaluated new technologies and assay formats, extensive use of automated liquid handling and high throughput screening robotic equipment and software.
• Data management and design of target-related strategies for multiple projects.
• Management of compounds designed via in-house Chemist.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Documentation: generation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), data forms, standard test methods, and transfer methods. Routine training of updated SOPs and standard test methods through Documentum Compliance Manager. Analytical Testing: run and analysis ELISA data for active pharmaceutical ingredients and their intermediates, analyzing data, document.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Low Throughput Screening (LTS): running routine ELISA and analyzing data in a timely matter.Cell Biology: routine maintenance and expansion of primary neurons for ELISA. Assay Development: optimization and design for AlphaLISA/AlphaScreen assay as a second platform for cell based screens.

Valencia, California

Assay Development: optimization, routine analysis, data management and the design of target related strategies for multiple projects.Protein Production: generation of active recombinant protein through purification and characterization.High Throughput Screening (HTS): selection, optimization, miniaturization, routine analysis and automation of kinase.

Thousand Oaks, California

Molecular Biology: regular isolation and Bio Analysis of total RNA from multiple mouse tissues to submit for gene expression to the Micro Array Core. Cell Biology: maintenance of multiple mammalian cell lines for apoptotic cellular assays involving small molecules.Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP’s): performing PCR amplification of gene exons.

Master'S Degree, Project Management

Ms, Biology

Activities and Societies: GA/TATeaching Assistant for 2 semesters of Graduate School Responsible for Lesson plan, lecture, lab set up.

Bs, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: ACS, APSStudent Research Associate 2 years with the Physics department

Bs, Biology

Student Research Associate in Molecular Biology lab