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Los Angeles, CA, US

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

Role was impacted by Amgen economic restructuring, effective March 2023.-----------Worked on a range of assays supporting a brand new project that is still in the discovery phase. Performed cell-based assays to screen activity of GPCRs. Contributed to cell line generation and their characterization by flow cytometry. Designed and validated over 80 qPCR.

Sherman Oaks, CA, US

In this fast-paced start-up environment, I had an opportunity to take initiative and contribute on many different levels.As an associate scientist, I co-lead a T-Cell Receptor (TCR) discovery branch with proprietary iSORT technology for isolating new TCRs against specified tumor-associated targets. I also work on the validation team testing TCRs that come.

Sherman Oaks, CA, US

Handled the entire work flow of screening and validating novel TCRs: * Isolating human T cells from PBMCs* making virus and transducing T cells with our constructs* expanding and screening transduced T cells* setting up different cell-based assays to confirm target-specific TCR activityI was the first employee at T-Cure and I was also instrumental in.

New York, NY, US

At this small biopharmaceutical start-up that develops first-in-class drugs targeting cancer progression pathways, I was part of the preclinical research team working on all the aspects of experimental work, data analysis, as well as writing and editing reports that led to FDA approval of Phase I clinical study, currently in progress. My contributions.

Evanston, IL, US

Working on research of discovering rare Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with schizophrenia and investigating their functional mode-of-action using molecular biology experiments and cellular models. Latest work includes differentiation of iPSCs into Cortical and Dopaminergic neurons and Genome-editing of iPSCs using CRISPR constructs. Past.

Evanston, IL, US

My research in Dr. Leonard's lab focused on developing a computational model of signal transduction pathways involved in functional polarization of macrophages in tumor microenvironment. This was a new project for the lab, so I was responsible for researching and testing various pathway-modeling tools, for making decisions about which pathway cascade and.

Evanston, IL, US

Masters of Biotechnology ProgramMcCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois, US

Underwriter in HealthPro.

Ms, Biotechnology

Bs & Ba (Double Degree), Mathematics (Operations Research); Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

Semester Study Abroad, German Culture & Literature

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics