Karen Marcus Email & Phone Number

Pipersville, Pennsylvania, United States

Developing an animal model for itch/pain response to radiation therapy.In vivo imaging of metastatic disease modelsDeveloping immortalized cell lines from clinical tumor samplesAuthoring SOPs, animal protocols and grant budget proposalsClinical trials liaisonResponsible for on-boarding of rotating students and safety training documentationProducing training videos for laboratory equipment and a web-based cell culture training for research staff, resulting in increased productivityConsultant for other labs in cell culture and aseptic technique

• Managed all aspects of day-to-day operation of an Antibody Core Facility • Managed 100 hybridoma cell culture fusion projects and presented updates and results to clients • Established all protocols and standardized all assays performed by the facility• Developed hybridomas that have been patented and/or commercially licensed• Antigen design using BLAST and Protean• Protein purification with tangential flow and Akta• Assisted in writing grant proposals with budget presentations• Managed a BSL2 laboratory• Generated T cell lines reactive to neural sheath proteins• Executed molecular biology and bioassay experiments, including ELISA, MLR, Westerns, PCR, and flow cytometry, on clinical trial samples • Presented a poster at American Association of Immunologists, San Francisco, CA 2011