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Denver, Colorado, United States

Staff aide providing support to lead teacher in early childhood education. Assist in classroom activities for 3-5 year olds to get them ready for kindergarden.

JFK Partners/ Developmental Pediatrics, University Of Colorado, Anschutz Medical

Manage grant submission to Federal, State and Philanthropic funding agencies for members of JFK Partners in the Departments of Psychiatry and Developmental Pediatrics, School of Medicine. Fiscal management functions both pre-award and post award. Oversight of grant finances, invoicing and reporting. Assist with contracts for faculty with CU Medicine.

Aurora, CO

Senior Adviser to a start-up Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Company engaged in the development and commercialization of innovative products for a personalized medicine approach for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. Assisted with original company formation logistics, registration of company in federal small.

Aurora CO 80045

• Research in the prevention and genetics of Type 1 Diabetes; worked with the detection of autoantibodies and genetic markers, including HLA, in a large patient population at the Barbara Davis Center; enrolled family.
• Managed day-to-day operations in a CLIA certified laboratory performing HLA typing and autoantibody assays for clinical trials. Trained personnel in safe lab practices. Wrote and posted job descriptions for research.
• Responsible for the procurement of large equipment purchases and routine lab supplies, maintenance contracts, updating software, troubleshooting, and inventory control.
• Financial management of research grants from various funding agencies for principal investigator. Responsible for pre-award activities, routing, multi-year budgets and oversight of grants, account reconciliation..
• Experience with academic fiscal and funding policies; performed monthly payroll tracking, and funding distributions; proficient in PeopleSoft for Finance and Human Resources.

Boston MA

• Molecular Biology Core Manager, oligonucleotide primer synthesis, plasmid preps, cAMP assays, gel shift, PCR, and other molecular biology and tissue culture techniques
• Mutation studies on transcription activation of CREB binding sites with somatostatin and adenovirus E2A promoters
• Sanger sequencing of ICA69 gene, early marker for type I diabetes

Biological Laboratories, Cambridge MA 02138

Early research in transformation of tobacco callus with Ti plasmid, in Agrobacterium tumefaciens transferring chloroplast and atrazine resistance genes to tobacco plants. Maintenance of several strains of bacteria to nurture Ti Plasmid. Molecular biology of plant chloroplasts.

Daulat Ram College, Delhi University, Delhi, India

Undergraduate teaching, lectures and labs in all branches of botany, plant physiology, systematics, taxonomy, genetics, morphology and life cycles of all the phyla from algae through angiosperms.

Mba, Health Administration

Executive MBA in Health Administration University of Colorado Denver. Courses in leadership, accounting, microeconomics, healthcare.

Scientific Writing, Editing And Journalism

Evening courses in Scientific writing, Editing and Journalism.

Ph D, Botany

Activities and Societies: American Diabetes Association, Immunology of Diabetes Society, American Society for Human GeneticsAwards.