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Chicago, IL, US

Brussels, BE

Paris, France, FR

Paris, France, FR

• Provided well-defined cross-functional plans aligned with target product profiles to support global R&D strategies to support development of two pipeline vaccine portfolios.
• Actively engaged with global stakeholders to discuss unmet scientific needs, product innovation, production, regulatory affairs, and clinical designs related to the therapeutic area.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Collaborated with Scientists, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, and Sales personnel to support the development, manufacture, clinical studies, and launch of two novel drug products.
• Established and maintained meaningful and lasting relationships with external and internal stakeholders from a wide array of industries to manage projects spanning from drug development, process improvement, clinical.
• Demonstrated abilities to research, interpret, and translate complex scientific information into professional communications and promoted discussions between stakeholders of diverse backgrounds.
• Facilitated project team meetings to maintain continuity of objectives, specifications, deliverables, timelines, tasks and conducted project post-mortem analyses.
• Developed knowledge of regulatory processes to support compliance strategies throughout projects’ lifecycles.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Developed and optimized scaled-up syntheses of three drugs, resulted in a successful Phase I trial studies and the commencement of Phase II trials.

Kingston, On, CA

• DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
• Investigated a pathway for the development of nucleoside and nucleotide derivatives for RNA sequencing.

Kingston, On, CA

• DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY- SUPRAMOLECULAR & BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
• Created a series of novel chemosensors for the recognition of damaged nucleobases in DNA, which resulted in two publications and presentations at nine national/international conferences.
• Advised eight graduate/undergraduate students on their research projects and successful thesis defences.
• Collaborated with the Laboratory of Translational RNA Biology at Queens’s University and the HHMI-Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University.

Kingston, On, CA

• Prepared tutorials, lead review sessions, marked assignments and provided hands-on lab supervision for the following courses;
• General Organic Chemistry I and II
• Organic Reactions/ Applied Organic Chemistry
• Main Group Chemistry
• General Chemistry

New York, NY, US

• Leveraged my communication skills and relationships to lead the transfer of a proprietary RNA-based molecular diagnostic approach, to Queen’s, and trained staff who continue to advance the project today.

• Authored four study guides for middle and high school entrance exams

• Instructed top elementary and high school students in Iran on advanced chemistry concepts, supervised lab experiments and mentored students’ research projects.

• Instructed top high school chemistry students in Iran for the Chemistry Olympiad.

• Designed and synthesized an artificial switchable receptor based on dibenzo-[a,c]-cycloheptene derivatives and explored applications of its binding properties with phenethylamine derivatives in drug delivery.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemsitry

Project Management Certificate