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Leading Protillion Biosciences efforts in antibody library design, screening and optimization using a transformative technology that enables screening of millions of variants simultaneously while preserving the linkage between protein sequence and function.

San Diego, California, Us

New York, New York, Us

Engineering and humanization of antibody biotherapeutics.

San Diego, California, Us

Scientist and Project Leader for many early stage projects from discovery stage through optimization mainly utilizing VHH or single domain antibodies. Worked to move multispecific therapeutic antibodies from the design stage through analytical and characterization workflows up to CMC handoff. Extensive library design, synthesis and screening for therapeutic antibodies and enzymes. Leadership and mentorship for small teams of antibody engineers and protein scientists.

Amunix's core technology centers on recombinant polymers that significantly increase the serum half life of drug and biological conjugates.Contributions include: protein engineering and single-chain antibody development, library design and synthesis, project management.

Stanford, Ca, Us

The Canary Foundation at StanfordOur protein engineering group was undertaking several projects to engineer protein binders to a variety of targets including tumor markers and immune cell receptors. We were responsible for the entire process from library construction and panning to in vivo molecular imaging using PET, MRI and fluorescence/bioluminescent methods. Protein Engineering Pipeline• Protein Binder Engineering and Development: Library construction and screening of antibody mimetics (fibronectin type 3), affinity maturation and sequence analysis.• Protein Engineering Pipeline Development: Workflow design, quality control procedures and SOP authorship.• Analytical Protein Chemistry: Bioconjugation, MALDI, protein purification, HPLC.

LS9 is a biotechnology company focusing on the production of renewable fuels and hydrocarbons. The company uses metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches to alter natural biochemical pathways in bacteria, to produce fuels and chemical feedstocks. • Synthetic Biology and Enzyme Engineering: responsible for designing and constructing DNA libraries of enzyme variants showing improved hydrocarbon production. My activities included diversity creation, library construction, gene design and synthesis, and screen management.

Precision Genome Engineering is a startup biotechnology company dedicated to creating next generation of tools for editing genomes for bioindustrial and gene therapy applications. I am currently engineering homing endonucleases to adopt novel recognition sequences for use in gene therapy using a yeast surface display technology developed at Seattle Children's Research Institute. Generally, I design and express libraries of variant nucleases and select active enzymes through fluorescence activated cell sorting.

Icogenex is focusing on research and development in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. I assisted in designing and implementing assays and screens for therapeutic molecules for Huntington's Disease and Alzheimer's disease. Duties required fluorescent assay development and validation, enzyme expression/purification for scale-up in support of screening efforts and SAR studies on hit molecules.

Seattle, Wa, Us

PhD student in the laboratory of Julian Simon. Worked in the field of proteomics, protein-protein interactions and anticancer therapeutic R&D. Dissertation title: The Dynamic Interactome: Investigation of Ligand-dependent HSP90 Complexes. I independently designed and executed a series of semi-quantitative proteomic experiments to identify proteome wide effects of native nucleotide ligands and chemotherapeutic compounds on the HSP90 interactome. This study required extensive optimization of conditions for purifying native HSP90 complexes as well as management of large datasets and large-scale culture of human cell lines. This work was published in the high tier journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.

I assisted in characterizing the tumor suppressor genes Egr1 and cx43 using cDNA microarrays and cell assays. Identified novel oncogenic activities of Aurora kinase using immunocytochemistry and inducible expression systems.

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