Ryan B. Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Expert resource and advocate for translational biomedical research bridging the gap between science and operations to help scientists achieve their project goals, clinically and pre-clinically.
• Serve as Program Manager for internally funded international translational cancer research consortium in partnership with Stand Up To Cancer (Van Andel Institute-Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetic Dream Team). Work with.
• Oversee program's finances; multi-million dollar budget.
• Collaborate with clinicians and scientists within consortium on daily basis.
• Work closely with VAI's biobank in developing collection kits, lab manuals, shipping logistics, and clinical site biospecimen processing.
• Work with clinicians and scientists in pre-clinical phase in arranging relationships with pharma, CDAs/NDAs, MTAs, etc.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Assist in managing Van Andel Institute-Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetics Dream Team clinical trials.
• Independently manage, facilitate and monitor daily activities of multiple clinical trials and perform a variety of duties involved in collection, compilation, documentation and reporting of clinical research data.
• Collaborate with project team leaders, PIs, collaborating investigators/institutions, pharmaceutical industry sponsors, and VAI Business Development to facilitate project proposal development and start-up.
• Support VAI leadership and in goals and objectives of clinical research project management and operations.
• Work with Pathology and Biorepository Core and project team leaders to develop, organize and track correlative specimen collection, processing, and conduct of downstream assays.
• Assist with coordination of developing and implementing correlative studies and bio-banking.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• IRB Specialist II -- Develop and revise IRB forms and checklists -- Assist investigators will IRB submissions -- Perform a preliminary review of all IRB submissions -- Perform IRB education and training.
• IRB member (2 years)
• Conflict of Interest Specialist II -- Manage the COI-Smart software and assist with disclosures -- Review the disclosures with Legal Counsel for assessment of COIs -- Develop management plans for significant COIs

Allegan, MI

• Raw materials testing in the raw material confirmation group
• LIMS to enter the lab results electronically
• Trained on performing various chemical tests, which include: -- GC/GC Headspace -- Impurities -- HPLC -- Potentiometric titrations -- Water (Karl Fischer) -- UV-Vis -- Specific gravity -- Refractive index -- Bulk.
• Work with a lab team to prioritize testing and achieve the daily testing goals to meet customer needs.
• Mentor new employees and work with them in situations where they need guidance.
• Team leader on a Lean Sigma company project

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Kept a safe environment for residents and staff and applied the program set in place by Pine Rest with help from my team members
• Interacted and built relationships with the residents and provided crisis management
• Medication certified and passed residents' medications
• Mentored new employees and helped them with daily tasks

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• On the Med/Surg clinical research team and coordinated clinical research trials
• Assisted my team members with their research trials
• Responsible for independent patient interactions and documentation relative to research studies.
• Handled, collected, recorded, and managed research data and specimen
• Audited my team members’ studies I prepared and submitted documents to the Institutional Review Board on a regular basis, which included:-- AE/SAE reporting-- Protocols-- Consents-- Applications for Human Research.
• An FDA drug trial with Pfizer as the sponsor. This drug trial was a randomized, double blind, parallel-group study of cardiovascular safety in osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis patients with or at high risk for.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Sciences, General

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Social Sciences