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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Actively generated leads, converted them into opportunities, and closed sales with both academic and industry customers.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Regularly presented a synthesis of complex project aspects (scientific, clinical, and financial) to senior executives to facilitate decision making.
• Played a key role in the establishment of strategic partnerships with 3 leading U.S. based cancer centers to support company growth.
• Spearheaded the development of revenue through research sales.
• Started managing a team of 3 program managers. As team lead, tasks included project prioritization, troubleshooting, and ensuring company objectives were met. Provided mentorship and guidance, conducted one-on-one.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Demonstrated collaborative leadership through establishing the company’s foundation of a wide network of KOLs at top-ranked U.S. universities.
• Fostered strong relationships with KOLs by maintaining close communication.
• Successfully completed external and internal collaborations leading to 5 high impact manuscripts and over 10 abstracts at major conferences.
• Managed up to 40 concurrent scientific collaborations at different project lifecycle stages.
• Executed different roles while under pressure to meet challenging deadlines in a continuously evolving start-up environment.

Greater Boston Area

• Led a team of immunology researchers. As team lead, tasks included conceptualizing and directing original research, overseeing and coordinating daily team operations, and reporting progress to industry executives and.
• Wrote a detailed funding proposal and obtained two-year funding for follow-up study based on results obtained during postdoc fellowship.
• Published results in top-tier journal.

Greater Boston Area

• Worked on 2 projects performed in close collaboration with a leading, Boston-based pharmaceutical company.
• Recipient of a competitive Belgian American Educational Foundation fellowship.
• Implemented procedural changes to improve lab productivity. Converted storage in freezers and animal facility from ad-hoc use to assigned workstations and spaces, streamlining daily tasks.

• Laboratory for the Molecular Biology of LeukemiaKU Leuven, Faculty of MedicineVIB, Center for the Biology of DiseaseThesis: The role of JAK3 mutations in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
• Led several novel research projects resulting in 3 first author publications in two top-tier journals on Leukemia: Blood (2014 and 2018) and Leukemia (2018).
• Won an EACR travel fellowship for initiating and leading a successful project in collaboration with Newcastle University (Australia), which led to the first author publication in Leukemia (2018).
• Conducted research as part of several external and internal collaborations, which led to five joint publications in leading journals of the leukemia field including Blood and Cancer Discovery.
• Mentored two graduate students. Organized and led weekly meetings to guide their ongoing development. Delegated experimental work to full time lab technician.
• Won a Travel Grant to present JAK3 data to leading hematology scientists at annual conferences for the American Society for Hematology (~20.000 participants) and European Haematological Association (~10.000.

Laboratory for the Molecular Biology of LeukemiaKU Leuven, Faculty of MedicineVIB, Center for the Biology of DiseaseThesis: Study of interleukin-7 receptor mutations in leukemia

School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, UKThesis: The function of nesprin2 in centrosomal biology

Phd, Doctoral School Cancer Programme

Master Of Science (Msc), Biochemistry And Biotechnology, Magna Cum Laude

Bridging Programme, Biochemistry And Biotechnology

Bachelor'S Degree, Biotechnology, Cum Laude

Chemistry