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Durham, NC, US

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Senior Research Associate with the Analytical and Formulation Sciences department. Coordinates with scientists and team leaders to achieve strict client deadline objectives while maintaining GMP level standards for.
• Specializes in capillary electrophorese (CE), imaged capillary isoelectric focusing (icIEF), and biolayer interferometry… Show more Senior Research Associate with the Analytical and Formulation Sciences department..
• Specializes in capillary electrophorese (CE), imaged capillary isoelectric focusing (icIEF), and biolayer interferometry techniques
• Routinely peer reviews laboratory notebooks and data analyses
• Maintains sampling testing timelines of simultaneous stability studies.
• Authors and performs validation studies on analytical methods Show less

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Senior Research Associate on cross-disciplinary product development team with specialization in assay development and enzyme characterization. Lab Manager responsible for day-to-day operations of 5 BSL-I and BSL-II.
• Developed and transferred 10 validated enzymatic assay standard analytical protocols (SAPs) to QA/QC department.
• Led team that improved enzyme thermostability by… Show more Senior Research Associate on cross-disciplinary product development team with specialization in assay development and enzyme characterization. Lab Manager.
• Led team that improved enzyme thermostability by 80% via downstream processing and excipient formulation. Designed and conducted experiments, coordinated team schedule, and analyzed data. Assisted microbiology team.
• Managed improvement projects and drove efficiency through the utilization of LEAN management principles (i.e. 5S).
• Acquired and sustained BSL permits from Durham County through authorship and implementation of biosafety plan and training.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Research Associate accountable for stability studies of products under development. Aided collaborative research trials through successful training of external research teams. Trained 3 international collaborative.
• Principle on poultry feed, intestinal, and fecal quantitative enzyme specimen testing efforts in support of internal and external customer trials.
• Member of team tasked with development of qualitative enzyme “dip… Show more Research Associate accountable for stability studies of products under development. Aided collaborative research trials through successful.
• Member of team tasked with development of qualitative enzyme “dip stick test” for customer use. Responsible for ELISA and TLC protocol development and sample testing.
• Assisted senior staff on genetic modification of enzyme production strain project which resulted in 90% improvement of thermostability. Tasked with plating mutated bacteria, colony collection and PCR amplification..

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Research assistant responsible for the support of senior R&D, S&M and QA/QC staff.
• Analyzed quality control samples of formulated enzyme product and customer poultry feed in accordance with SAPs.
• Assisted on assay development and enzyme characterization projects. Responsible for enzymatic assay testing and purification of proteins via affinity chromatography.
• Prepared reagents and autoclave sterilized biohazardous trash.

Raleigh, North Carolina

• Planned and led weekly seminars on material covered in the lecture by the professor.
• Held office hours to support students in their mastering of the material.
• Graded and corrected quizzes and exams administered by the professor.