• Support ambitious life sciences innovations and entrepreneurs in healthcare and biotechnology to reach their full potential.• Prepare complex funding applications; take lead and manage the application process in collaboration with clients and colleagues, • Design project ideas towards a successful project proposal, establish high quality consortia, organise and chair project meetings, serve as main contact point for internal and external stakeholders, manage timelines for efficient and timely submission of funding applications.

• Managed multiple collaborative projects with groups within USA (Yale University, Pittsburgh University, Baylor College of Medicine) and Europe (The Francis Crick Institute, The University of Edinburgh).• Attained new skills in the field of stem cell biology and pulmonary hypertension (animal models, injection techniques, in vitro assays).• Orchestrated three projects as leading researcher and contributed to nine projects including two papers, one currently under review (Circulation) and one published (Nature Communication).• Delivered protocol-specific training to researchers in multiple groups at Yale University (Immunology, Biomedical Engineering).• Mentored and actively contributed to the work of a PhD candidate by providing advice and new insights on practical and theoretical matters.• Conserved extra research cost by executing experimental aims within budget and timeline, tightly managing the orders and mouse colony of the group.

• Identified a wide range of potential therapeutic targets for stroke including Angiotensin type II and Mas receptor-mediated mechanisms of neuroinflammation, chemokine-mediated leukocyte infiltration and post-stroke injury, and microRNAs altered by cerebral ischemia and reperfusion.• Actively coordinated and contributed to multiple collaborative projects with groups within Australia (Monash University, The University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of New South Wales) and USA (Vanderbilt University). • Gained expertise in numerous techniques including focal ischemia using a microsurgical procedure in rodents (MCAO), primary cell culture and transfection, flow cytometry and cell sorting, qPCR and immunofluorescence confocal microscopy.• Awarded the prestigious Anthony Koelmeyer International PhD Excellence Award, which provides travel expenses towards international conference attendance and/or lab visits for up to three PhD candidates.• Authored 12 publications in leading journals in our discipline, including multiple publications in Stroke and Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. • Presented research at conferences (5 posters) and Universities (2 talks as invited speaker at Stanford and Vanderbilt Universities, USA).

• Provided scientific expertise to >50 undergraduate students, ensuring the completion of multi-steps laboratory experiments in a timely manner.• Critically assessed and evaluated student's practical reports • 5 mentored research students achieving distinctions/ First Class honours• Assisted graduate students with experimental design and set-up

• Developed experimental SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) and delivered protocol-specific training to 4 researchers • Established Primary cell culture techniques in the group