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San Diego, California, United States

- Lead all stages of product development from market research and product ideation through launch.- Develop and execute product roadmaps to ensure deliverables are met on time.- Liaise between internal and external business units to discuss product integration strategies and drive cross-selling.- Establish technical point-of-contact role for key accounts.

- Mentored five undergraduate students. Guided development of their laboratory, critical and independent thinking, and scientific communication skills. - Initiated and led an undergraduate-led journal club to adapt to virtual mentoring.- Designed and facilitated a summer wet lab bootcamp that trained 15-25 students on use of common lab equipment and.

Austin, Texas Area

- Engineered gold nanoparticles to interrogate the influence of nanoparticle shape on cancer and immune cell uptake.- Managed, designed, and coordinated experiments across 4 cross-functional collaborations with immunology, biology, biomedical engineering, and chemical engineering research groups.- Collaborated with a laboratory at Dell Medical School to.

- Designed, developed, and tested a lateral flow assay for the detection of COVID-19. Developed novel quality control tests. Prepared molecular assays for early clinical research studies to determine sensitivity and specificity. Wrote detailed SOPs and maintained impeccable records for testing and manufacturing. - Validated a multiplexed qPCR test for.

- Led a cross-disciplinary team of five graduate students in a semester long consulting project with two Austin-based startup companies. Managed projects of varying size and scope. Prioritized and delegated concrete tasks for the students to accomplish on a weekly basis.- Communicated progress to founders, supervisors, and outside teams via written reports.

Tarrytown, NY

- Stimulated innate immune cell lines and analyzed cellular phenotype through multiple multi-parameter flow cytometry panels. Evaluated the ability of stimulated cell lines to be used as antigen presenting cells to primary human T cells in in vitro cell-based assays to identify and pursue the most promising therapeutic candidates. - Analyzed, interpreted.

- Optimized a luciferase-based bactericidal assay to successfully identify the vaccination status of horses.- Optimized and engineered bacterial outer membrane vesicles to be used as cancer vaccines.

- Organized weekly discussion section content for 20 students to further their communication skills. Provided constructive feedback on individual and group projects and promoted healthy teamwork and group communication.

- Investigated host cell requirements for successful reovirus factory formation using KO/KD cell lines.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Society I am currently studying the tumor microenvironment with a focus.

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