Research Scientist with over 17 years of experience focusing on in vivo pharmacology and toxicology. Expertise includes the ability to take an experiment from the early stages of planning through to the completion of IND supporting documentation. Multi-year research has focused on oncology, immunology and neurology.Skills• Study design, planning and management: ability to design, organize, resource (internally/outsource) and execute a variety of in vivo experiments including pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, ADME and various screening and efficacy models including: oncology, inflammatory disease, preclinical toxicology, transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer’s disease and post-menopausal bone loss • Dose administration in rodents: IM, SC, IV, PO, IP• Sample collection: intra-cardiac, retro-orbital, jugular vein (rat), catheter (jugular vein), saphenous vein (mouse), metabolic caging, CSF sampling and rodent necropsy.• Surgical skills: osmotic pump placement (IP, SC, ICV), castration, ovariectomy, skin transplantation, and jugular catheterization• Computer skills: Pharsight Phoenix WinOnLin, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Prism and eNotebook• Additional in vitro skills: cell culture, protein assay, western blot, Meso-Scale, CBC analysis using the Hemavet 850, serum chemistry analysis using the Beckman Coulter Synchron CX5 Pro