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Greifensee, Ch

Greifensee, Ch

• Developed race promotional materials for the inaugural race• Managed all social media interaction for the race • Disseminated race details throughout the community and surrounding areas • Maintained engaging and positive online presence before, during, and after the date of the race

• Experience collaborating with national and international institutions for interdisciplinary research.• Navigated national and international healthcare regulations and local laws to ensure ethical patient interactions through IRB and Ministry of Health approval. • Led a diverse scientific team as the field work scientific investigator for product optimization and subsequent clinical implementation in low-resource field work during two cohort trips to rural Zambia.• Disseminated results at national and international conferences, as well as writing and editing publications in peer-reviewed journals.• Instrumented organ-on-a-chip technology to bridge clinical and bench scientific research.• Directed scientific progress for a milestone-driven grant involving collaborations between multiple principle investigators to ensure reliable device and data delivering as well as writing monthly reports.• Advised and mentored 2 post-doctoral fellows and 3 graduate student researchers.

• Vanderbilt-Zambia Network for Innovations in Global Health fellow• Led a group of scientists to redesign, develop, and optimize a global product that is clinically relevant innovative diagnostic enhancement platform.• Documented and developed standard operating procedures for outside analysis to satisfy product delivery deadlines. • Provided technical support to untrained technicians overseas. • Managed and led a cohort of 1 post-doctoral fellow, 4 graduate students, and 1 technician for a pilot study using patient populations in rural Zambia.

• Maintained and drove a collaboration with Novartis International to perform cellular metabolism investigations on a proposed therapeutic.• Initiated multiple intercollegiate collaborations to bring additional scientific value to complex studies in cancer, infectious diseases, and oxidative stressor research. • Mentored and advised 9 graduate students and 1 undergraduate student.

• Obtained, managed, maintained, and analyzed large data sets. • Initiated collaborations within Vanderbilt University Medical School and Novartis International for therapeutic metabolic investigations. • Authored manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals. • Disseminated results and networked extensively during national conferences.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Developed methodology for the extraction and elucidation of natural products from various Actinomycetes cultures, initially obtained from local cave environments. Applied a variety of analytical characterization techniques to gather information for each sample.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Worked with a graduate student of Dr. K. Grant Taylor toward the organic synthesis of a potential osteoporosis pharmaceutical.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Awarded the Scholarship and Creative Activity Summer Institute (SCAI) grant for work under the guidance of Drs. Craig A. Grapperhaus and Francis P. Zamborini. Applied inorganic synthesis and electrochemistry toward the development of a carbon monoxide capturing device. Worked with self-assembled monolayers for adhesion to gold surfaces and utilized analytical techniques for characterization.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemistry

M.S., Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry