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Biomedical research scientist with 5 years of post-graduate research experience followed by 12+ years of principle investigator experience in the following fields: inflammation, angiogenesis, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, signal transduction, nanotechnology, drug characterization/validation.• 12+years experience in managing research teams of 3-5 people, executing grants in a timely fashion, • 19+ years experience in scientific writing: publishing in peer reviewed journals and grant application submissions to government and private grant funding agencies• 15 + years experience in being awarded research grants/fellowships ranging from $35,000-$2 million• 20+ years experience in collaborating with academic and company researchers • 20+ years experience in presenting research at local, national, international research symposia• 12+ years teaching experience: establishing and teaching graduate level courses, mentoring undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral fellows• 20+ years technical experience with transplant and transgenic mouse models of cancer, 2-D and 3-D cell culture systems, mammalian cell isolation, cell and tissue imaging, protein and nucleic acid analysisSpecialties: inflammation and cancer research, team leader, conflict manager, establishing and working in collaborative teams, scientific writing, mentoring/teaching, budget management, scientific troubleshooting