Maneesh Kumar, Md, Phd Email & Phone Number

Iowa City-Cedar Rapids Area

Long Beach, California, US

Long Beach, California, US

North Chicago, Illinois, US

• Grants Management and Growth - I can help optimized existing successful grants programs and help find new funding opportunities.
• Portfolio Analysis - As donors grow increasingly interested in understanding the impact of their philanthropy, I can help provide in-depth assessment of the contributions of these research dollars.
• Anything Else - My only goal is to help my clients. Whether that's helping to translate scientific progress reports for donor facing material/marketing or negotiating multi-million dollar partnerships.From strategic.

New York, US

• Lead and administer BCRF's $60 million annual grants program. Manage and implement process improvements for application, followup, and review processes.
• Grow partnerships with research and clinical organization, including American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and American Society of Radiation of Oncologists.
• Develop innovative funding models and special projects to progress breast cancer research.

New York, US

Lead BCRF’s $50-million, five-year investments in translational cancer research including: (i) the Investigator-Initiated Drug Research Program, (ii) Founder’s Fund for Metastasis Research, and (iii) Special Partnerships including the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium. BCRF is the largest nonprofit funder focused on breast cancer research in.

Denver, CO, US

• Understanding development and progression of epilepsy resulting in 1 poster presentation, 1 invited oral presentation, 1 peer-reviewed publication (in review), and American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award.
• Identified barriers to research, analyzed available tools and limitation, and developed novel methodology to answer scientific questions using primary cell culture and zebrafish models.
• Established high throughput neurotoxicity screening methods using metabolic and microelectrode array assay

• Identified problem of DEXA scan not being recommended for women over 65, measured baseline data from clinic, analyzed and identified root causes of why physicians were not recommending scans, implemented process.

New York, NY, US

• 98.3% excellence rating, comments include “funny,” “kept the class engaged,” and “very knowledgeable.”

Iowa City, Iowa, US

• Dissertation Title: MicroRNA-302 as a Redox Sensitive Regulator of ARID4a and CCL5
• Determined effects of oxidative stress on cancer and aging in cell culture models resulting in 3 peer-reviewed publications and multiple poster and oral presentations.
• Repurposed reporter plasmid technology resulting in new method to assess microRNA biological effects in vitro.

• Provided timely and accurate written and oral lay explanations of complex scientific research for marketing and other material

• Highly competitive national research program for medical students.
• Demonstrated radiation sensitive localization of RNA-binding protein HuR and radioresistance of SOD1-overexpressing cells resulting in 1 invited oral presentation and 1 peer-reviewed publication.

Houston, TX, US

Learned immunofluorescence, siRNA-mediated knockdown, and other molecular biology techniques by studying RNA binding protein HuR in many different cell lines.

Used Matlab software in order to develop an algorithm for panoramic image stitching for Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Stanford, CA, US

Collected genetic samples from small mammals (voles) in Yellowstone National Park and compared to fossil samples collected in the same area to evaluate evolution of the species.

Doctor Of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Free Radical And Radiation Biology

Doctor Of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine

Bs, Biology

Education record