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Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Stockholm, Se

• Development of company business strategy.• Regular presentation of technology at conferences, webinars and partnering meetings.• Building and maintaining trusting relationships with new and existing pharma partners.• Global business development (US / EU / Japan), out-licensing the Salipro technology platform.• Participation at key partnering conferences, e.g. BIO meetings.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Worked with the Business Development & Strategy group to evaluate early-stage inventions from Fred Hutch researchers.• Assessed market size and competitive landscape.• Identified applications and potential companies to partner with.• Analyzed patent landscape and public disclosures to assess intellectual property potential.• Created marketing material for licensing of technologies to partnering companies.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Social media manager & member of the leadership team, overseeing committees that organize 10+ networking events and workshops per year.• Organizer & moderator of a panel debate at the workshop "Women in Science".• Seminar planner: Invited national speakers and planned their entire schedule, including meetings with faculty and students.Hutch United was founded as a grassroots organization at Fred Hutch with the mission of fostering a supportive and diverse community of scientists. It is now recognized as an Employee Resource Group under the Office of Diversity & Inclusion.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Evaluated immune responses induced by HIV vaccine candidates developed in-house, with the aim of inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies.• Presented my project and results at regular lab meetings as well as at international conferences.• Grants & scholarships: CFAR Trainee Support Grant (2019)

Singapore, Sg

• Performed high throughput screening of convalescent patient samples to identify neutralizing antibodies against dengue virus. Candidates were produced in larger scale and characterized with the goal of entering a clinical path.• Responsible for setting up an antibody core facility from the bottom up.

Solna, Se

• Chikungunya virus (in BSL-3 laboratory) and Tuberculosis vaccine research• Teaching and student supervision

Solna, Se

• Performed vaccine research on: alphavirus replicons, DNA vaccines, virus vector vaccines, adjuvants, HIV vaccines.• Presented my project and results at regular lab meetings.• Gave oral and poster presentations of my research at various international scientific conferences. For example, I was selected to give oral presentations at the following conferences: ◦ XV International Congress of Virology in Sapporo, Japan (2011). ◦ Keystone Symposia: Immunological Mechanisms of Vaccination in Ottawa, Canada (2012).• Supervised undergraduate and master students in the lab• Taught virology and immunology to biomedicine and medical students through hands-on lab sessions as well as pre-exam review sessions.

Solna, Se

Research on alphavirus vaccine vectors while preparing for registration in the PhD program.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

• Completed an annual portfolio of clinical trials and financials of all active investments.• Mapped an investment company's competition. This included searching for and comparing data from clinical trials and finally presenting this to the partner group.• Attended presentations and meetings with pharmaceutical and medical device companies that were either active investments or potential new deals.

• Developed hepatitis C cell culture systems. This work became part of the patent “Efficient cell culture system for hepatitis C virus genotype 2b”.

• Wrote popular science articles about research in health sciences for websites.• Transformed peer-reviewed science papers into layman language for the general public.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Packaged marketing and communication material to be distributed to doctors directly at their offices or at conferences.• Compiled news media analyses of specific disease areas.

Phd, Medical Science, Infection Biology

Visiting Master Student, Thesis On Vaccine Adjuvants

Msc, Human Biology

Exchange Student, Biochemistry

Bsc, Biochemistry

High School

American/International High School