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Portland, Oregon, United States

● Designs and executes decisive research and development projects: enabling phase I clinical trials.● Conducts mouse immunogenicity studies. o Demonstrated long lasting T cell responses● DNA construct generation: artfully generated and validated plasmids, bacmids and viral vector vaccines.● Expertly generated gene inducible expression systems. o Facilitating the development of a complementation titer assay.● Designed assays to characterize vaccine candidates for… Show more ● Designs and executes decisive research and development projects: enabling phase I clinical trials.● Conducts mouse immunogenicity studies. o Demonstrated long lasting T cell responses● DNA construct generation: artfully generated and validated plasmids, bacmids and viral vector vaccines.● Expertly generated gene inducible expression systems. o Facilitating the development of a complementation titer assay.● Designed assays to characterize vaccine candidates for phase I clinical trials.● Production cell line: Established and validated a telomerized cell line suitable for vaccine production or further genetic modifications. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

● Designed and generated novel biological materials. o Generated innovative vectors in support of company objectives. o Expertly generated novel gene inducible expression systems.● Expertly designed and executed experiments in support of company goals. o Generated key data for successful grant application.● Conducted mouse immunogenicity studies. o Successfully established mouse model system. o Demonstrated vaccine protection against tumor challenge.… Show more ● Designed and generated novel biological materials. o Generated innovative vectors in support of company objectives. o Expertly generated novel gene inducible expression systems.● Expertly designed and executed experiments in support of company goals. o Generated key data for successful grant application.● Conducted mouse immunogenicity studies. o Successfully established mouse model system. o Demonstrated vaccine protection against tumor challenge. o Demonstrated vaccine therapeutic ability against established tumors. o Expertly designed multi-parameter flow cytometric panels. Show less

● Developed unprecedented small animal model to test viral vectors.● Demonstrated cellular immune response against viral vectors.● Developed original bacterial complementing system for production.

● Demonstrated in the event of periodic lymphocyte loss young donors rely more on thymic output to maintain lymphocyte levels while middle aged donors rely more on peripheral expansion.

Doctorate, Philosophy

Bachelor Of Science, Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology