Ruilian (Roxy) Zhang Email & Phone Number

Rahway, New Jersey, United States

• Designed and developed an R Shiny App to automate the NCA(Non-compartmental Analysis) process, streamlined the key outputs ant thus shortened the turnaround time of deliverables.
• Conducted quality control of PK NONMEM data, identified and documented common issues thereby increased data quality and reduce inconsistencies in data review.
• Involved in statistical programming software development lifecycle, led the user approval test, gave UI/UX feedback and technical suggestions, which facilitated the product release.
• Serve as the single point of department external agreements submission and management, collaborate with BD&L team and internal scientists to coordinate invoices and payments with business partners.

New York, New York, United States

Department: Quantitative Methods in the Social SciencesCourse: Morden Data Structure

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Shanghai, China

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Down-sampled 20 sets pair-end CPC-GENE samples to 15 gradients and aligned the FASTQs with STAR and HISAT2
• Quantified RNA abundance by running Kallisto on FASTQs and RSEM on 3000 sets of aligned BAMs
• Contructed pipeplines (Python) and compare outputs (R) of transcripts detected and correlations between sets
• Conducted Differential Gene Expression Analysis by DESeq2 on samples with/without ERG fusions

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

• Sorted out cancer-related circular-RNAs (Python) from 80,000+ fusion genes and proposed the downstream verification
• Optimized the gradient of drug concentration in culturing and passaging cells from 3 different hepatoma cell lines
• Measured cell viability using statistical methods (GraphPad) from data of MTT assay and clonogenic assay
• Extracted protein sample from cells and conducted Western Blot to detect 6 autophagy-related proteins
• Optimized the experimental conditions of HIS-Tag purification
• Extracted pET-23 plasmids from E. coli K12, conducted SDS-PAGE to see the traits of the plasmids

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Addressed biological and medical research related questions related to Catalog Products
• Constructed and maintained the Confluence Workspace for the department, collecting contact and product information
• Updated inventory (Excel) of 500+ products, made daily report of stock availability and the emergence of key products

Master Of Science - Ms, Biostatistics, 4.0/4.0

Specialized in Data Science. Coursework: Causal Inference, Could Computing, Machine Learning, Elements of Data Science, Natural Language.

Summer Session, 4.0/4.0

Coursework: Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health, Introduction to Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biotechnology, 3.86/4.0

Selected for the undergrad cohort of State Key Lab of Biotherapy. Research rotations in Pharmacogenomics, Molecular Neuroscience.

Other, Participant Of Cross-Disciplinary Scholars In Science And Technology (Csst) Program

Conducted bioinformatics research with the aim to find out the optimal sequencing depth for NGS data of prostate cancer.