Robert Ivey Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

IveyStar provides technical strategies customized to each client’s priorities and goals. We identify and set priorities to ensure innovative research development and efficient commercialization to generate reduced operating costs and optimized work streams while establishing appropriate policies to meet regulatory demands. Ultimately, our clients realize.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Continuation of diabetes research from Scientist II position (see below)Elucidated molecular mechanisms for autoinhibition and activation of the central biomarker for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Generated viral and bacterial expression systems for multiple proteins involved in the laboratory’s research. Updated and optimized the.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Directly managed multiple teams performing production scale microbial fermentation and downstream culture processing. Evaluated and upgraded equipment, modernized processes, established manufacturing performance benchmarks for new products. Interfaced with other department heads for logistical management and product development. Served on the company's.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Advised Quality Control and Manufacturing personnel to improve production processes. Evaluated culture production, oversight and management as well as product formulation protocols and equipment and implemented appropriate changes. Directed laboratory and pilot scale microbial fermentation trials and culture production.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Designed and excecuted multiple lines of experimentation concerning Diabetes mellitus type 2 and its precursor, Metabolic Syndrome. Negotiated third party contracting and ensured proper Quality Control testing of experimental therapeutic compounds.Accomplishments: Generated multiple expression systems of several Diabetes-related proteins along with.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Managed Drug Product Manufacturing and Discovery Biology for Archer CPS. Established drug formulation development, manufacture, and analysis of immediate and modified release formulations of novel therapeutics. Collaborated with Archer biologists to screen and validate novel drug compounds and targets. Developed analytical methods for small molecule.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Directed preliminary phases of a proteomics pipeline for biomarker identification and drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease and drug addiction. Designed pilot targeting studies of proteins for drug development through small molecule and macromolecular isolation and biochemical, bioinformatic, and structural characterization techniques. Developed and.

Greater Memphis Area

Developed multidisciplinary projects dealing with novel antibiotic design and characterization of rheumatoid arthritis. Cloned and mutated genes, expressed and purified proteins, crystallized them, and solved their three-dimensional molecular structures in apo form or bound to small molecule or peptide ligands. Directed junior scientists in parts of these.

Kingstree, SC

In Clemson University's Cooperative Education Program, participated in the design, construction, and operation of a pilot-scale, continuous plug flow yeast fermentation system. Drafted bioreactor plans and performed proof-of-principle plug flow reactor design experiments. Operated and maintained multi-stage, continuous flow, multi-grain yeast fermentation.

Ph.D., Biochemistry

Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology Department, “Characterization of Chloroplast Transit Peptides and the Major Stromal Hsp70.

Bs, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Cooperative Education Program Senior Research Thesis: Cosmid Library Screening for Regulatory Genes Involved in.