Kareem Clark, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

• Drive the creation of impactful and strategic medical communications for commercial-stagebiopharma clients around key milestones and advertising campaigns, ensuring messagingresonates with target audiences, including.
• Build strong client relationships to deliver easily consumable, scientifically rigorous materialsaligned with brand objectives and FDA/OPDP guidelines, including print ads, slide decks,infographics, fact sheets, press.
• Extensively collaborate and incorporate feedback across all agency and client stakeholderteams, including PR, IR, social and creative, medical and regulatory, R&D, and external KOLs.
• Actively participate in new business pitches to drive successful, well-researched client proposals.
• Oversee the work of junior team members to ensure the quality and accuracy of science-heavy client deliverables.
• Lead the strategy and development of thought leadership pieces, with successful placements in outlets like The Hill, USA Today, Drug Discovery World, Boston Globe, STAT News, and POLITICO.

• Leverage my scientific background and clear, lay-friendly writing style to pitch, author,and publish impactful science journalism articles.
• Versatile writing style with expertise in opinion, interview/reporting, and popular science.
• Published in Discover Magazine (4), The Conversation, Massive Science (2), RichmondTimes-Dispatch (Op-ed).
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Manhattan, New York, United States

• Served as the point of contact and strategic lead for 5-7 biopharma client account teams.
• Leveraged scientific expertise to help clients effectively reach target audiences (e.g., HCPs,patients, investors, industry KOLs, and reporters) through earned and owned channels.
• Delivered effective and scientifically rigorous client communication items, including pressreleases, media pitches and target lists, corporate decks, media Q&As, website copy, andsocial media content.
• Distilled complex medical concepts into accurate and easily accessible key messages.
• Led the authorship and strategic placement of client thought leadership articles.
• Client industries included cancer immunotherapy, cell therapy, virology, antifungal,antibacterial, pulmonary disease, cardiac gene therapy, and plant-based biomanufacturing.

Roanoke, Virginia, United States

• Investigated the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling the development andfunction of the brain’s stress circuitry, focusing on the early-life predispositions to anxiety,depression, and other mental health.
• Refined skills in project management, mentorship, study design, technical and big-picturetroubleshooting, manuscript and grant submissions, and medical research presentation.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Investigated the neuronal-glial interactions associated with multiple sclerosis andidentified potential new CNS disease targets missed by current therapies.
• Developed skills in project design, problem-solving, oral and visual scientific presentation,mentorship, and manuscript writing and editing.

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

• Performed analytical wet lab techniques such as sample purification, liquid and gaschromatography, and mass spectrometry.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

- Investigated the role of glial cells in intercellular signaling with neurons in the rat optic nerve and how neurotransmitters ATP and glutamate mediate this functional relationship.- Utilized techniques in rodent surgery, in situ calcium microscopy, and image processing.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Dissertation title: Altered Axon Initial Segment Structure and Function in Inflammatory Disease

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biochemistry