Will Ross Email & Phone Number

Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Project Manager of $1M contract for a Phase 1b clinical drug trial monitoring 10 hospitals in USA and Europe on their muscle biopsy processing quality. • Developed standard operating procedures and training video accessible online to train hospital technicians on muscle biopsy processing procedures for clinical drug trials. (http://www.agadabio.com/freezing-video/)• Train AGADA research associates in advanced drug administration, functional testing and necropsy techniques in neuromuscular disease murine models. • Train AGADA research associates in immunohistochemistry and microscopy imaging procedures. • Project Manager for 5 preclinical trials between 6 to 24-month duration within 4 years.• Collaborate with a team of 20 employees to plan and execute preclinical experiments using muscular dystrophy models.• Writing, reviewing and presenting preclinical study data to pharmaceutical clients.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Developed skill set in cell culture, Western Blot and other molecular assays for preclinical trials. • Help construct a SQL database via Oracle to organize and query preclinical data points for future preclinical model and experimental planning. • Led the on-site muscle biopsy training for the company’s novel clinical trial support services and monitored 6 hospital sites in the USA. • Developed a standard operating procedure for a colorimetric staining analysis of muscle that reduced analysis time by 400%.

Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Cooperated with teams of 8-13 other Resident Assistants in developing the community of students living in residence.• Organized monthly social events for residents, and created bulletins for on-campus events, good study habits, and sexual health. • Acted as a first-responder in situations where residents were physically, emotionally or mentally distressed.

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Worked as field technician for an ecological non-profit for an American Eel habitat assessment project. • Inserted 1mm Passive Integrated Transponder tags into eels to track their habitation patterns in a lake.• In conjunction with the American Eel habitat assessment project, data was collected for my undergraduate thesis on small fish populations.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology (Hons)

High School Diploma