Experience

Volastra Therapeutics
• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director, Biomarkers

  • Jun 2022 - Present


Inspirna, Inc. (formerly known as Rgenix, Inc.)

• Principal Scientist (Translational Medicine)

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2022

  - Provide scientific and strategic support to advance our miRNA-target discovery platform, the foundation of Inspirna's therapies. - Analysis of biomarker data from DNA, RNA and immune cells of clinical samples from Phase 1b/2 clinical trials. - Biomarker discovery and validation. Method development as companion diagnostic (CDx) used in our clinical trials. - Work closely with Clinical Operations team and clinical trial CROs.

• Senior Scientist

  • Apr 2016 - Jan 2020

  - Responsible for preclinical study design, monitoring, data generation, analysis and interpretation relevant to translational research. - Plan, design and execute pre-clinical IND-enabling pharmacology, toxicology and tumorigenic studies. - Provide scientific and operational management of the translational biology function. - Identify CROs to conduct preclinical studies in the oncology field.



MSKCC

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Research Associate

  • Feb 2014 - Apr 2016

• Research Fellow

  • Apr 2009 - Jan 2014


University of Valencia
• Higher Education
• PHD Student

  • Jan 2002 - Jun 2008