Michelle Frank Email & Phone Number

I provide Hanover and its higher education clients with grant review, revision, and writing support, along with grantsmanship and agency-specific trainings. I have assisted clients in developing grants over a broad spectrum of innovation—from robotics and software to applied physics, medical devices, and biomedical technologies—for agencies and foundations including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department Of Defense, Spencer Foundation, American Heart Association, and more. As Senior Grants Consultant, I spearhead the Grants Team's efforts related to (1) incorporating efficiency enhancing tools into the consulting workflow and (2) revision of LaTeX proposals in Overleaf.

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I provide Hanover and its higher education clients with grant review, revision, and writing support, along with grantsmanship and agency-specific trainings. I have assisted clients in developing grants over a broad spectrum of innovation—from robotics and software to applied physics, medical devices, and biomedical technologies—for agencies and foundations including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department Of Defense, Spencer Foundation, American Heart Association, and more.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

The services I offer through Adeptify, LLC encompass technical writing, grant preparation/editing, blogging, and copyediting, among others. I primarily specialize in assisting clients with preparing SBIR/STTR grant applications for the NSF, NIH, USDA, and DOE. I have edited articles for journal submission, written technical manuals for an up-and-coming biotech corporation, and blogged for various websites. I also frequently edit theses and dissertations for graduate students in STEM fields.

Madison, Wisconsin

As a recruiter, I used my scientific expertise to fill client needs for temporary and permanent scientific professionals. I worked with a team of scientists to match science professionals from all career levels to positions in biotech, pharma, contract manufacturing, and contract research organizations. My work involved career counseling, coaching, interviewing, and identifying talented candidates from resume databases and career events.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

I continued in the vein of translational cardiovascular research, using electrophysiological techniques to investigate excitation-contraction coupling. I was using a mouse model of a mutation that can cause fatal arrhythmias in children and otherwise healthy adults, with the aim of zeroing in on what happens at the cellular level to cause the arrhythmias, and potentially identifying therapeutic interventions. During the first year of this fellowship, I was funded by grant #T32 HL 07936, National Institutes of Health, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cardiovascular Research Center), and thereafter by a fellowship from the American Heart Association (#12POST8810007).

Department Of Physiology

As a research assistant, I specialized in translational cardiac research: specifically, working with a scorpion toxin that can cross cell membranes to reach its target protein, the ryanodine receptor (an intracellular calcium channel implicated in cardiac arrhythmia). The aim of this research was to lay groundwork for a novel drug-delivery agent, potentially carrying an anti-arrhythmic drug "cargo" to the interior of cardiac cells. My research involved confocal microscopy (Zeiss LSM META), cell biology, arachnology, electrophysiology, cardiomyocyte isolation, Western blot, and RT-qPCR. I was funded during the last two years of my training with a grant from the American Heart Association.

I was responsible for quality assurance and quality control for a wide range of microbiological tests to ensure compliance with United States Department of Agriculture and client methods. I analyzed food and other products for microbial contamination following standard operating procedures. I trained new employees in microbiological techniques and in quality control.

Amarillo, Texas Area

I performed environmental and physical testing of solid and liquid waste samples to assess contaminant and pollutant content. The techniques I used included inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; preparation, digestion, distillation, and extraction of sample materials; inorganic and wet chemistry analysis using ion chromatography, titration, and colorimetric techniques; gas chromatography. I analyzed data, consulted with clients, and wrote standard operating procedures following guidelines established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC).

Canyon, Tx

During my research assistantship at WTAMU, I worked with arachnologist David Sissom, studying scorpion taxonomy. My research involved going out in the field to collect scorpions and preservation and identification of specimens. While earning my Master's degree, I taught biology laboratories and published three papers (two of which were first author).

Phd, Physiology

Ms, Biology

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General