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Boston, Ma, Us

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Perform patient sample testing in a manner that adheres to all established standard operating procedures (SOPs).• Perform testing workflow that maintains quality, thoroughness, and optimum efficiency result turnaround time.• Extract and isolate nucleic acids.• Prepare the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) library.• Execute hybridization and genetic sequencing methods.• Process samples by operating automated 8-span and 96-head liquid handling platforms.• Operate quantification, sizing, and NGS instruments.• Utilize the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to track and execute sample processing.• Document executed process steps per Good Documentation Practices (GDP). Update and maintain records and data on test results per GDP.• Document and assist with investigations for non-compliance events via NCRs, CAPAs, etc.• Participate in additional continuous quality improvement activities.• Review standard operating procedures at set intervals and sign to document knowledge of these procedures.• Collaborate on standard operating procedures revisions/drafts as needed to adjust for process improvement initiatives and regulatory changes.• Train others in laboratory processes.• Participate in reagent and assay quality control and validations.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Ma

• Receive and record delivery of patient samples on a daily basis.• Unpack and verify contents and condition of received samples.• Perform data entry into the Foundation Medicine LIMS assigning specific computer generated identification numbers to each sample.• Route samples into the appropriate workflow and ensure downstream staff is alerted to sample availability.• Maintain, proper documentation including proper specimen handling, labeling and preparation of worksheets.• Maintain specimen identification and integrity throughout all processes of the department.• Properly ship samples to pathology departments.

283 Bear Hill Rd. Waltham Ma

• Production of ProMark, an image analysis assay measuring the expression of eight protein biomarker sused in determining aggressiveness of prostate carcinoma in CLIA-certified laboratory.• Performing accessioning, staining and quality control using Vectra immunofluorescent microscope for patient slide samples • Responsibilities include troubleshooting robotic laboratory machinery with close coordination alongside the Research department as well as training and leading newly hired technicians.

Novartis Institutes For Biomedical Research Inc.,Cambridge Ma.

The position primarily involves aseptically aliquoting reagent and buffer solutions for use in Oncology and Developmental Molecular Pathways. Responsible for inventory maintenance and shipping of LB plate stocks as well as chemical solvents. Not a single contaminated aliquot since promotion into this role.

Novartis Institutes For Biomedical Research Inc.,Cambridge Ma.

The Point of Use program managed twenty one individual laboratory stockrooms ranging from basic safety supplies to specialized media reagents and included inventory accounting through SAP.

Academic co-op involved in analyzing acute and chronic sequelae of hypoxia-ischemia on the subsequent development of cerebral mantle and tested the hypothesis that dysregulation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling and fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) cascade may have interacted in the pathogenesis of encephalopathy of prematurity.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Behavioral Neuroscience

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