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• Supervised scientific staff in all aspects of production including sample preparation, data analysis, instrument maintenance, and results reporting for comprehensive drug testing• Provided customer service through phone consultations to physicians concerning reported patient test results• Responsible for laboratory compliance to CLIA regulatory requirements• Developed multiple assays on LC-MS/MS for the detection of drugs of abuse in urine

• Functionalized and optimized gold- and carbon-based nanomaterials for clinical cancer research• Developed protocols for purifying and characterizing nanomaterials for both in vitro and in vivo studies• Investigated the heating profile of nanomaterials in an external radiofrequency field (RF) to determine their heating efficacy as agents of cancer ablation • Assessed the cytotoxicity of the nanomaterials in two different hepatocellular cancer cell lines and determined cell viability after combinational treatment of drug and an RF field

• Employed synthetic organic chemistry techniques to generate quaternary stereocenters in small natural product molecules• Successfully synthesized (-)-lycoramine, a derivative of the Alzheimer’s drug (-)-galanthamine• Purified and characterized molecules using flash chromatography, NMR, GC/MS, and FTIR