Monica May Email & Phone Number

United States

San Diego, California, United States

• Promotes the school's mission of educating future pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist leaders, advancing groundbreaking research and serving our communities with a focus on key audiences of prospective students.
• Inaugural communications professional for the school, founded in 2002; establishes communications strategies, processes and procedures working closely with the dean and school leadership
• Develops media strategy and conducts outreach
• Oversees production of quarterly school newsletter which has an open rate of 40%, including content strategy, copy development and design.
• Creates engaging content for the school's social media channels, including Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook and YouTube.
• Leading overhaul of school website, including sitemap, content and design development.

• Promotes the department's tripartite mission of delivering outstanding clinical care, conducting groundbreaking research and educating future neurosurgical leaders with a focus on key audiences of neurosurgeons.
• Leads development of the bi-annual department newsletter, including content strategy, copy development, image selection and graphic design.
• Creates engaging content for the department's social media channels: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
• Manages department website, including visual and copy updates.
• Launched department newsletter, Instagram and Facebook channels.
• Member of the department's equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) committee.

• Works closely with SANDSWA's president to unite San Diego-based science writers–including journalists, freelancers and PIOs–through networking events, mentoring programs and more.

Greater San Diego Area

• Writes press releases, blogs, profiles and more that translate scientific findings into compelling stories for non-technical readers
• Crafts engaging posts for Institute's social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram
• Writes Institute's monthly newsletter, Discoveries, and contributes to annual magazine, Pathways
• Shares stories with the media, resulting in coverage in national, trade and local outlets
• Produces videos explaining complex science to non-technical audiences

San Diego, CA

• Plans and executes strategic communications activities to help clients achieve core objectives, including accelerating clinical trial enrollment, reaching potential partners or increasing sales leads.
• Handled communications campaigns surrounding data announcements, financings, partnerships and more.
• Adept content creator who has written press releases, blogs, newsletters, web copy and social media as well as produced videos for both highly technical and lay audiences.
• Skilled developer of highly scientific content, including mechanism-of-action videos and scientific images.
• Media relations work has led to coverage of clients by top-tier, trade, regional and international broadcast and print outlets.
• Expertise working with clients across the spectrum of the life sciences industry, including biopharma startups, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, biomedical research institute and bioinformatics company.

San Diego, CA

• Supported communications programs for clients in differing stages of drug development, from preclinical assets to late-stage therapeutics, and developing a wide range of technologies, from stem cell technologies and.
• Specialized in media relations activities, securing coverage of clients in various publications, including top-tier, trade, regional and international outlets.
• Tracked media coverage of clients, their peers and developments in the space, using these findings to guide and execute future communication strategies.

San Diego, CA

• Supported communications programs for clients in differing stages of drug development, from preclinical assets to late-stage therapeutics, and developing a wide range of technologies, from stem cell technologies and.
• Specialized in media relations activities, and secured coverage of clients in various publications, including top-tier, trade, regional and international outlets.
• Tracked media coverage of clients, their peers and developments in the space, using these findings to guide and execute future communication strategies.

San Diego, CA

--Supported communications programs for clients in differing stages of drug development, from preclinical assets to late-stage therapeutics, and developing a wide range of technologies, from RNA-based therapeutics and antibody drug conjugates to medical devices. --Specialized in media relations activities, and secured coverage of clients in various.

• Researched tropism of dengue infection in a mouse model using different experimental approaches, primarily using fluourescent immunohistochemistry and reverse transcriptase PCR.
• Assisted post docs and principal investigator as needed. Maintained day-to-day responsibilities of the lab, including ordering supplies, care of the vivarium and overall cleanliness of the lab.

Purified antibodies. Performed quality control tests primarily through the use of Western Blot and ELISA. Engaged in troubleshooting to improve quality of antibodies purified.

Ma, Education

Bs, Molecular, Cellular, And Developmental Biology