Generative AI Platform for Biotech, Pharma, Diagnostics, Med Devices companies.

Pluto is a 3D virtual event platform. The Pluto team built a product that enabled thousands of people to be in the same virtual world concurrently, move around, and interact – all in the web browser using video and audio. Companies like Canva, Figma, Xoogler Ventures and others used the product for interactive social events. The product was acquired by Fluxon.

Employee #2 at Color, a technology company focused on helping people lead the healthiest life that science and medicine can offer. The company initially focused on increasing access to genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk by building modern technical systems for bioinformatics and machine learning, variant classification, LIMS, clinical professionals and other workflows + the dropping cost of genetic sequencing. Color's product and technology platform is now used for population health delivery across cancer prevention programs for employers and unions, testing and vaccines for public health, genetic testing through the NIH, and other care delivery programs for millions of people.I joined Color as employee #2 and worked on new product and business line launches, strategic partnerships, and operations.

Research in synthetic biology. Biosynthesis of pharmacologically-relevant compounds. In the laboratory of Dr. Christina Smolke, Professor of Bioengineering.

Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) helps women start their own business manufacturing and selling sanitary pads. Worked in Kigali and remotely on a reproductive health education program, wrote funding grants, conducted UX research, and built a team of interns to help with health education.

Research in Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy. In the laboratory of Dr. David Holtzman, Chair of the Department of Neurology.Relevant research publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22058226/

Research in RNA interference and the knockdown of target protein expression. In the lab of Dr. Amy Harkins, Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering. Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research, Life Sciences category.Relevant research publication in The Journal of Neuroscience Methods: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17767962/