Research Technician

• Aug 2019 - Present

Reseach Technician

• Nov 2018 - Present

• Assisted post-doctoral fellows in multiple projects to investigate the role of PRMT5 in glioblastoma and breast cancer. • Conducted drug screening of epigenetic modulators of cancer to identify potential therapeutic probes.• Performed cellular assays using commercial breast cancer cells and primary patient tumor cells. (ie. lentiviral transfection into mammalian cells, PCR, and Western Blot).• Collect and analyzed data using Incucyte, Image Studio, Excel, and Graphpad. • Assisted post-doctoral fellows in multiple projects to investigate the role of PRMT5 in glioblastoma and breast cancer. • Conducted drug screening of epigenetic modulators of cancer to identify potential therapeutic probes.• Performed cellular assays using commercial breast cancer cells and primary patient tumor cells. (ie. lentiviral transfection into mammalian cells, PCR, and Western Blot).• Collect and analyzed data using Incucyte, Image Studio, Excel, and Graphpad.

Clinical Research Assistant

• May 2015 - Apr 2016

To investigate the effect of gemfibrozil as a smoking cessation medication in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover phase II trial To investigate the effect of gemfibrozil as a smoking cessation medication in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover phase II trial

Customer Service Associate

• Aug 2014 - Aug 2014

-Help customers manage their funds, answer their questions regarding the bank’s products and services-Solve problems related to customer finances and management-Manage customers and bank’s data-Promote new bank products and services to customers -Help customers manage their funds, answer their questions regarding the bank’s products and services-Solve problems related to customer finances and management-Manage customers and bank’s data-Promote new bank products and services to customers

Research Assistant

• Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

Examine inflammation as a downstream target of oxidative stress in bipolar disorder.- Prepared post-mortem human brain samples of patients with bipolar disorder, and performed Western Blotting to examine levels of an inflammatory protein (NLRP3) in cells from patients with bipolar disorder. - Collected and analyzed data using Quality One, Excel and SPSS.- Critically reviewed relevant scientific literature and contributed to a review article on the topic of how inflammation is connected to oxidative stress in patients with psychiatric disorders.

Research Project student

• May 2013 - Aug 2013

Examine the impact of oxygen on cells deficient in replication-associated DNA repair.