Veronica Bruce Email & Phone Number

Albuquerque, NM, US

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

• Student assessments and risk management for 6-12 students.
• Adaptive communication for different learning strategies.
• Visualization and practical techniques.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Experience coordinating and executing multiple R&D projects for the iQue® High-Throughput Screener (HTS) resulting in a successful product launch, three publications, multiple proof-of-concept studies and key.
• Contributor to innovation-driven workgroups to identify external collaborators and evaluate new workflows and emerging technologies to support product roadmaps.
• Created, wrote, and edited content for conference presentations, application notes, product guides, and curated publications to enhance the iQue® HTS website.
• Conducted in-person or virtual customer visits to collect VOC and feedback from external partners thus contributing to product enhancement and development.
• Coordinated internal technology reviews to propose projects, present data and results, and promote collaboration among scientists, engineers, and other cross-functional team members.
• Successfully trained two onboarding scientists and regional sales/FAS teams during reagent launch.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

• Provided scientific support to healthcare providers and community stakeholders to inform comprehensive public health strategies to reduce barriers to Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)-treatment.
• Collaborated with Johns Hopkins University to develop an innovative, antibody avidity-based assay and protocol to estimate population-level Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) incidence from blood samples.
• Partnered with Abbott Laboratories to characterize a novel human Pegivirus (HPgV2) in patients with active HCV infection.
• Determined HCV prevalence and type 2 diabetes co-morbidity in the elderly with statistical sub-analyses, via HCV-IgG reactivity and historical data from the NHANES study database.

University Of New Mexico/Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque NM

• Trained in immunology and contributed to a multi-lab collaboration to investigate immunological and genetic impacts of low-doses of low-LET radiation and chemically induced lung cancer.
• Designed and conducted ex vivo cellular and molecular assays in a mouse model of lung cancer to evaluate cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, protein detection, DNA mutation, and mRNA expression.
• Performed radiological (Gammacell 1000 irradiator; Cs-137) and chemical (benzo[a]pyrene) exposures in murine models in accordance with safety guidelines.
• Mentored and provided technical guidance to undergraduate students during summer projects through teaching, developing milestones, and reviewing progress.

Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM

• Obtained and maintained government clearance for work with CDC Tier 1 select biological agents and toxins in an ABSL3 environment.
• Generated and characterized biological and pharmaceutical aerosols and cross-trained in microbiology for pre-clinical safety and efficacy studies in animal models in accordance with regulatory agency guidelines.
• Wrote and implemented SOPs/protocols resulting in increased operator efficiency for GLP studies.

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Sandia National Laboratories, Carlsbad, NM

Certificate In Clinical And Translational Science

Biostatistics, Research Design, Epidemiology, Biomedical Informatics, Grantsmanship, Cultural Competency, Biomedical Ethics, Study.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biomedical Sciences, General

Immunology, Cancer Biology, Physiology, Advanced Molecular Biology, Advanced Cell Biology, Problem Based Research Bioethics, Statistical.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General

Activities and Societies: UNM Track and Field, UNM Presidential Scholar Immunology, Virology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Microbiology and.