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Vienna, Austria

Wien, Österreich

Assisting in the management of a group of 13 scientists (Deputy to the GLP Senior Manager).Responsible for the planning and scheduling of new projects in the GLP department.

Vienna, Austria

Management and overall responsibility for the scientific and technical conduct of multiple virus and prion clearance studies (planning, performance, documentation and reporting) according to the OECD Principals of Good Laboratory Practice - GLP and other international guidelines. Key Tasks and Responsibilities include: -Study/Project Management (design, scheduling and performance of studies, delegation, communication and training of assigned lab personnel, analysis, interpretation and reporting of results as a single point of control) -Creation and maintenance of quality documents - GxP conform documentation -Liaising with Sponsors and Clients, Management, QA and a team of scientists -Process training coordinator

Vienna, Austria

- Between 02/2017-07/2019 lead specific work packages in a scientific collaboration with the Pharmaceutical industry to elucidate the action of clinical compounds. Project management and regular reporting. - Led projects studying the link between environment and metabolism, and studying the mechanisms of drug action and resistance using genetic screens, high-throughput drug screens and “omics” approaches. - Established new cell culture systems (eg Human Stem Cells).

Ioannina, Greece

- Main experimentalist and coordinator in specific working packages of the research program entitled: “Membrane transport: Structure-function and evolutionary relationships (EVOTRANS)”. - Cloned and characterized nucleobase transporters from bacteria and mammals. Analysis of the structure-function relationships of the newly characterized transporters, utilizing homology modelling for effective mutagenesis designs.

Ioannina, Greece

Assisted in the training of students, conducted tutorials and laboratory exercises, supervised and graded exams.

Phd, Biological Chemistry

Title of thesis: “Investigation of the purine uptake mechanism in nucleobase-ascorbate transporters (ΝΑΤ)”, Principal Investigator Stathis.

Bsc, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Diploma thesis: “The role of the 12th transmembrane segment (TMS12) in nucleobase-ascorbate transporters (NAT)”, Principal Investigator.