Build and lead a team of risk assessment experts as part of a global technical platform responsible for delivering expert advice, technical positions, product safety studies and risk assessments within global Seeds Product Safety to support the research, development, regulatory approval and life-cycle maintenance of biotech crop products. Collaborate with experts from industry and scientific societies to promote science-based approaches to address biotech crop safety concerns for their uses as food and feed, and for their impact on environment.

Regulatory and compliance support on a broad range of products - nitrogen stabilizers, microbial inoculants as fertilizer supplements and biochemical plant growth regulators. Responsible for product registrations with US EPA and state agencies, Canadian CFIA and PMRA; and for regulatory compliance across the product value chain.

Technical and regulatory expert in AgBiotech industry with extensive experience on biotech crop product safety assessment and registration from major AbBiotech companies.

In charge of the Seed & Trait Safety operations in US including laboratory and greenhouse operations, and third party outsourcing; coordinate multiple Seed & Trait Safety assessment teams and GLP compliance team in US with oversight of all management and administrative tasks; Collaborated with other global operation teams and various functions (Trait research, Breeding and Trait Development, Legal, IP, Stewardship, Market Acceptance, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Procurement, etc.) in order to achieve timely product registration & launch, and post-launch maintenance; Served as a regulatory expert in specific global crop project team to steer project strategies to achieve time- and cost-effective registration;Interacted with regulatory and government agencies as needed dealing with issues or advocacy related to the safety assessment and acceptance of the biotech crop products.

o GLP study Director on GM crop product characterization studies;o Senior Protein Biochemist & Protein Analytical Subject Matter Expert;o Global coordinator for protein analytical tool outsourcing;o Associate Science Leader on global corn regulatory projects;o China biotech product registration partner in support of China local regulatory team.

Project and group management – led a R&D technical support team to provide immunoassay reagents and assay support for transgenic trait discovery, development, and post-launch quality control; collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to support product registration package submission by timely delivery of protein analytical methods.

• Development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic biomimetics (peptides, recombinant antibodies) for neurotoxins – synthetic peptide and naïve human scFv library screen; engineer, express, purify and characterize peptide and antibody hits; develop functional assays in primary neuron tissue culture.

• Develop novel Toll-like Receptor Ligand Mimetics as Adjuvants and Therapeutics.• Recombinant protein engineering, expression, purification and characterization.