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Philadelphia, PA, US

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

• Leads all scientific aspects of the Abraxis portfolio R&D, including technology evaluations, new product developments, new methods, and application development.
• Directs R&D staff, including organizational structure, hiring, professional development, motivation, performance evaluation, discipline, compensation, personnel policies, and procedures.
• Develops, sets, and manages budgets, ensuring appropriate allocation of resources.
• Works across Eurofins Technologies companies to help set the scientific vision, lead, and drive execution toward this vision.
• Together with the GSDH President, develop and set annual department goals, guide and develop team members on setting and achieving group and individual goals, and foster the team's development.
• Tracks and reports project status and results to GSDH and Eurofins Technologies global management teams.

Greater Philadelphia

• Managed all R&D and production functions and scaled the production process six-fold.
• Led and coordinated multiple BU teams to support the evolution of new products.
• Identified the opportunities for expanding science and technology to new markets and diversified the development of ethylene sensors and lateral flow tests for the food industry.
• Oversaw process development, analytical and bioanalytical methods development, and guided the establishment of SOPs to test currently marketed products.
• Established short-range and long-range operating objectives, organizational structure, staffing requirements, and succession plans; built a multidisciplinary team of 8 professionals.

Haverford, PA

Developed and assessed in vivo novel oral nanoparticle-based formulations of a proprietary drug candidate, which enabled the client to move drug development to the next phase.

Brooklyn, NY

- Created strategies for product formulation, development, and optimization, which were successfully implemented in product efficacy studies.- Assessed immunogenicity studies and prepared a successful SBIR Phase I grant of $200K.

Philadelphia, PA

Laboratory Director - Nanomaterials and Targeted Drug Delivery- Established and managed the Drug Delivery Laboratory, from recruiting and managing the research team to executing multidisciplinary scientific projects.- Prepared and secured eighteen competitive research grant awards totaling $2.7M from NIH, Bi-National Israel Science Foundation (BSF), W.W..

Philadelphia, PA

Targeted small molecule/nucleic acid/cell delivery, biomaterials, tissue engineering, medical devices, biological sensors, and nanofabrication

Philadelphia, PA

- Created objectives and scope for projects focusing on targeted delivery of small molecules, gene therapy, and cell therapy.- Designed and implemented a proof-of-concept study demonstrating feasibility of magnetic cell delivery to stented arteries as innovative strategy for vascular disease.- Co-invented and co-authored several granted patents, high.

Beer-Sheva, Israel

- Launched an Analytical Chemistry Laboratory and managed a team of three lab members.- Developed laboratory-scale processes of enriching organic waste solvents for secondary markets.- Led method development and process development to extract toxic components from salt waste for disposal of industrial waste.- Optimized purification methods of industrial.

Ph.D., Biotechnology Engineering

M. Sc., Biotechnology Engineering

B. Sc., Chemistry