Mission-driven drug discovery scientist with 7+ years industry experience strongly committed to addressing unmet medical needs, with expertise in project team leadership, induced proximity platforms (including targeted protein degradation), oncology and infectious diseases indications, mammalian cell culture, molecular biology, and data analysis.• Highly experienced in mammalian cell culture (primary and cell lines), cell and molecular biology, virology, automated microscopy-based assays, mode-of-action validation studies, and data analysis.• Expertise in study design, execution, analysis, and presentation, with adherence to project timelines.• Biology team leader on multiple drug discovery programs in highly cross-functional team environments• Supervising research team• Excellence in communication, collaboration, and writing, with strong emphasis on team-oriented, milestone-driven activities• Effective in hybrid work environments (proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, GoToMeeting)** Technical expertise **__Cell culture__• Mammalian cell culture (primary cells and cell lines) • Lentiviral transduction • Virology• RNAi / CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) • Targeted protein degradation• Drug treatment / dose-response assays / rescue studies / viability studies• MOA determination / validation studies• Transfection (transient and stable)• Cell line generation• Clonal line development / isolation / expansion • Plate-based immunofluorescent assays (ImageXpress) • Multicolor flow cytometry • in vitro click chemistry__Molecular biology__• PCR and RT-qPCR • Primer design • Cloning • Site-directed mutagenesis • Plasmid construction / design / synthesis• cDNA generation • Western blotting / immunoblotting• Automated immunoblotting (ProteinSimple Jess)• Lysate fractionation • Virus generation and purification__Biochemistry and biophysics__• Protein affinity purification (native, denaturing, tandem affinity purification) • Protein quantification (BCA)• Protein dialysis / buffer exchange • in vitro labeling (biotin, dyes, click chemistry reagents) • SPR (Biacore T100/200, 8K) • BLI (Octet) • Protein-compound and protein-protein binding assays__Data analysis__• High proficiency with Excel, Python, Prism Graphpad, and R (incl. Shiny app development) • High proficiency with platform-specific data analysis software (XLFit, Cellprofiler, Biacore evaluation software, ForteBio data analysis). • Experienced in analyzing public and proprietary datasets, including proteomics and gene knockdown/knockout datasets.