Coordination and support of all tissue bank activities. The General Hospital operates several licensed tissue establishments, providing skin, corneal, muscosceletal, cardiovascular, hematopoietic, and reproductive tissues for transplantation. Critical procedures like procurement, processing, preservation, storage, testing and distribution of tissues are regularly inspected by the authorities. New opportunities for tissue transplantation are evaluated with a focus on research and development.

Head of Immunology R&D laboratory. Management of pre-clinical and clinical research on viral and bacterial vaccines. GLP study leader with extensive experience in assay development, validation and clinical testing. Contributing to Clinical Study Reports, Investigator's Brochures, and Biologics License Applications. Additionally, providing support to quality and manufacturing functions including CAPA and root cause analysis.Managing a GMP/GLP audited biosafety level 2 immunology laboratory; Establishing and validating immunological assays; Evaluating the immune response to vaccines in clinical trials (Seasonal Influenza, H5N1, H1N1, SARS, Lyme Disease);Planning and conducting pre-clinical studies with mice, guinea pigs and rabbits;Evaluating the reactogenicity of recombinant proteins and vaccines using in vivo (Rabbit CRP) and in vitro (human cell-based) assaysTransferring bio-assays to contract research organizations for the analysis of immunological parameters in clinical studies, training of the personnel, supervision of assay validation;Biostatistical evaluation of data, writing of study reports and submission documents

Pre-clinical studies of viral and bacterial vaccinesNeutralization, potency and safety assays for Influenza Virus, recombinant Vaccinia Virus,and HIVTesting of various adjuvants for the induction of cellular and humoral immune responses