-11 years of experience in research environment (wet and dry lab), including 5 years of in vitro diagnostic assay development in skin, colorectal, and breast cancers. Involved in successful ISO13485 certification and CE marking for IVD test, OncoMasTR. - Experience with validation of multi-biomarker panels.- Implementation of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP). - Multilingual Ph.D., M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology and M.Sc. in Bio-engineering.- International exposure: UGent, VIB, UCD, KULeuven, and OncoMark.- Cross-functional experience in biotechnology, bioinformatics, qPCR data analysis, IHC, innovation and entrepreneurship in life sciences.CORE COMPETENCES---------------------------------RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTBiotechnological research in top-level research institutions (VIB) and universities (UGent, KULeuven) in departments focused on pathology and oncology. Extensive experience with many biotechnological methods used in miRNA gene expression profiling research at DNA, mRNA, protein and cellular level.INNOVATIONFirst to perform miRNA profiling studies on an experimentally designed pigmentation model, resulting in industrial interest and provisional patent application. Development of a novel automated digital pathology technology for the detection of staining patterns in histopathology. PROJECT MANAGEMENTPh.D., post-doctoral and project management experience in simultaneous management of several EU funded research projects, involving international collaborations. Experience in supervising 1 masters, 2 post-docs, and 5 lab technicians during research projects. INFORMATICS/BIO-INFORMATICSExtensive expertise with the Microsoft Office package (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint), statistics (SPSS, Graphpad Prism and R programming), genome annotation (UCSC genome browser, Ensembl, NCBI/Entrez), pathway analysis (DAVID and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis), qPCR data analysis (qBase+), and scientific reference software (Endnote).
Listed skills include Molecular Biology, Pcr, Life Sciences, Cell Culture, and 26 others.
