Justin Kerr Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

Under the direction of supervisor, my responsibilies included:Reading scientific publications to gain insight of experimental design and methods to examine and quantify results. Administration of anti-diabetic drug candidates in-vivo, assayed via glucose tolerance tests and ELISA analysis to examine pharmacodynamic relationship. Analysis and interpretation of data. Including statistical analysis and electronic notebooking of procedures and results. Preparation of plasma or tissue samples for submission to our drug metabolism/pharmacokinetics group. Generate animal models for compound testing and/or histological examination.Cellular expression studies to map the location of target GPCRs in tissue sections or transfected cell lines via in-situ hybridization or immunohistochemistry.

Serial sectioning of frozen rodent tissues. Tissues included GFP-labeled stem cells injected into rat heart defect.