Dan Meyer Email & Phone Number

Rexford, Ny, Us

Principal Scientist responsible for strategic, technical and administrative aspects of technology development and project execution for medical diagnostic technologies, with applications in neuroscience and oncology:•Define vision and develop proposals for new projects, cultivating stakeholder and business support; guide project execution by defining roles and responsibilities to form integrated and impactful teams•Drive the technical execution projects using voice of customer, quality function deployment and risk analysis approaches to define priorities and milestones; Design technical programs to meet identified critical quality parameters and customer needs•Represent projects in regular project reviews for all levels of stakeholders and communicate accurate progress and risk updates; successfully balance a range of sometimes conflicted stakeholder input•Pursue and manage are variety of external relationships and collaborations, both industrial and academic, including grant writing for federal and private foundation support•Ensure appropriate project staffing, adjusting to project needs; define team roles to meet needs of project and individual, and provided opportunities for professional growth; and delegate tasks where appropriate while providing supporting guidance•Provide hands-on technical contribution to ensure systematic integration of overall project needs, bridging chemistry, biology, imaging and image processing and data analysis•Assist colleagues in experimental design and data analysis, and serve as mentor for technical and professional development of peers

Durham, Nc

Molecular Biology & Protein Engineering: •Gene design and construction: Invented a new method for controlled oligomerization of repetitive genes; Skilled in DNA manipulation and cloning, DNA sequencing, PCR techniques, electrophoresis, and in E. coli transformation, screening and culture•Protein production: Expressed biopolymers and other recombinant proteins in E. coli. Experienced in laboratory-scale expression culture•Protein Purification: Experienced with traditional chromatography (ion exchange, size exclusion, and affinity) and HPLC; Invented a general, nonchromatographic purification method for recombinant proteins through fusion to environmentally responsive polypeptides tags•Protein Characterization: Electrophoresis, UV-Visible spectroscopy, turbidimetry, fluorimetry, dynamic light scattering, differential scanning calorimetry, isothermal titration calorimetry, and surface plasmon resonance (BIAcore)•Developed and tested a new polypeptide-based carrier enabling thermal targeting of therapeutics or imaging agents to regions of locally induced hyperthermia•Bioconjugation of reporters to proteins•Radiolabel distribution studies in tumor-bearing murine models•In vivo videomicroscopy of tumor microcirculation in murine dorsal skin-fold window chamber model•Modeled and constructed a novel immunoassay platform: rapid, solution phase kinetics amenable to high-throughput applications.•Designed, synthesized and characterized an intracellular nanobiosensor platform: nano-scale device comprised of environmentally responsive polypeptides fused with autofluorescent proteins

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B.S.E.

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