Edwin W Lai, Phd Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

- Act as a liaison between Danaher operating companies to coordinate innovation strategies- Serve as the primary alliance point person for internal collaborations for the Nexus Programhttps://danaher.com/

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Responsible for overseeing and driving critical innovation program initiatives across the company.
• Responsible for owning, overseeing and driving the innovation projects funnel & framework including chairing the senior leadership innovation board meetings and driving the required assessments & process to determine.
• Responsible for building, maintaining and pursuing a continuous funnel of external funding opportunities needed to support innovation core projects.
• Responsible for overseeing and executing on critical innovation information sharing and culture building initiatives & forums including the President's Innovation Board meeting, the annual company-wide Innovation.
• Contribute in a technical scout capacity and to strategic planning process, also to drive collaborations with other Danaher OpCos and Danaher head office.http://www.cepheid.com/https://www.danaher.com/

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Responsible for coordinating and driving critical innovation program initiatives across the company.
• Responsible for owning, managing and driving the innovation projects funnel & framework including chairing the senior leadership innovation steering committee and driving the required assessments & process to determine.
• Responsible for building, maintaining and pursuing a continuous funnel of external funding opportunities needed to support innovation core projects.
• Responsible for owning and executing on critical innovation information sharing and culture building initiatives & forums including the President's Innovation Board meeting, the annual company-wide Innovation.
• Contribute in a technical scout capacity and to strategic planning process, also to drive collaborations with other Danaher OpCos and Danaher head office.http://www.cepheid.com/https://www.danaher.com/

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Oversight of the Oncology Research program, including internal Research portfolio management process and external collaborations.
• Oversight of Oncology resources to efficiently deliver projects to Development.http://www.cepheid.com/

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Oversee and direct research scientists and teams in the research and development of molecular diagnostics assays for early detection and monitoring of cancer
• Supervise direct reports, manage budget over $1.5 million
• Initiate, evaluate and drive innovation and research projects to completion, resulting in high quality presentations, publications and product development
• Provide scientific and technical guidance in global cross-functional teams
• Contributed to the launch of 3 CE-IVD products and 1 US-IVD (in progress) to date
• Run monthly oncology research priority meetings, organize and facilitate annual global research advance meeting http://www.cepheid.com/

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Lead the efforts of a team of scientists developing in vitro diagnostic tests on the GeneXpert system
• Updates senior management and executive team on progress
• Manages multiple major academic research collaborations, scientists and post-docs
• Initiated post-doc program and hired first post-doctoral scientist into Cepheidhttp://www.cepheid.com/

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Research and development for cancer molecular diagnostics. Worked on the identification of cancer targets and developed integrated sample preparation, DNA/RNA amplification and detection. Specifically:
• Identification of mRNA targets for bladder cancer assay
• mRNA expression analysis and assay development from Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded Tissue (FFPET) for breast cancer and prostate cancer
• Sample preparation, nucleic acid purification and detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), methylated DNA (meDNA) and microRNA (miRNA).http://www.cepheid.com/

Stanford, CA, US

Cancer biology post-doctoral research. Worked with scientists and clinicians to conduct original laboratory and clinical research into the molecular and cellular origins of cancer. Identified novel compounds for cancer therapy/treatment and studied oxygen deprivation/hypoxia on tumor growth and response to.

Bethesda, MD, US

As a member of the NIH Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP), I was able to utilize my communication and collaboration skills, integration of scientific information, and interdisciplinary investigation to initiate several research studies between various NIH institutes (CC, NCI, NINDS, NICHD, NHGRI), the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and.

Bethesda, MD, US

As a NIH Postbac IRTA recipient I conducted full-time research at the NIH. https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/postbac_irta2003-2005: HPLC for catecholamines, identification metastasis suppressor genes in malignant pheochromocytoma, generating animal models of metastatic pheochromocytoma

Riverside, CA, US

http://biomed.ucr.edu/2000-2003: G-protein-coupled receptor signaling through β-arrestins, with particular emphasis on protease-activated-receptor-2 (PAR2). Biochemical characterization of protein/protein interactions in signaling scaffold complexes.

East Lansing, MI, US

MSU/KCMS is a unique university/community-based integrated program, offering the benefits of both training environments. Studied signaling pathways and shadowed physician/clinician scientists. http://www.kcms.msu.edu/2002-2003: The role of MAP kinases in trauma and ischemia-reperfusion

Phd, Biomedical Sciences - Tumor Biology

Core: Credential Of Readiness

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Radiation Oncology

Bs, Major - Neuroscience, Minor - Philosophy