Rachel Yoder Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

• Served as project manager for study start-up of three investigator-initiated clinical trials and for dozens of correlative translational research projects.
• Co-developed study protocols for three clinical trials evaluating safety and efficacy of novel chemotherapy combinations in triple-negative breast cancer.
• Oversaw collection and analysis of clinical data for breast cancer recurrence, treatment response, and biomarker associations.
• Reconstructed clinical trial participant database; expanded and streamlined data collection and reporting tools.
• Designed experimental approaches for various funding applications.
• Helped secure multiple competitive grants from pharmaceutical industry and publicly funded organizations.

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Executed and managed contract-based research studies to evaluate the efficacy of biomedical products (e.g. vaccines, therapeutics) under GLP. - Virus propagation, primary cell harvesting, primary cell counting and.
• Managed use of cell culture and immunology laboratory facilities.
• Trained staff and students in various cellular/molecular techniques; interviewed applicants.
• Developed in vitro and in vivo test systems.
• Authored study protocols, standard operating procedures, and technical reports. Supported acquisition of new contracts by drafting proposals and advising on major equipment purchases.
• Interfaced between clients, study directors, and quality assurance to ensure the highest possible quality of data delivered in a timely manner.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Expressed tagged and truncated isoforms of NCB5OR, a cytochrome b5-like flavoheme reductase, via CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis in a mammalian neuroblastoma line.
• Created recombinant protein isoforms for subsequent x-ray crystallography studies
• Trained technicians and undergraduate students in various genotyping, PCR, and cell culture techniques.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Established gas chromatography protocols; developed a customized data analysis method for fatty acid composition as part of ongoing research on docosahexaenoic acid.
• Created a laboratory training program for FAME extraction from human blood samples and operation of ChemStation software (including troubleshooting exercises).
• Responsible for laboratory operations; developed laboratory methods, SOPs, and optimized protocols.

Master’S Degree, Molecular Biotechnology

Thesis: "Lipotoxicity in pancreatic β-cells: Proposed role of fatty acid desaturases and peroxisomal β-oxidation" (passed with honors)

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, Mathematics