Experience

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  Notch Therapeutics

  • Canada
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Technical & IP Specialist & Patent Agent

    • Jan 2024 - Present

  • Technical & IP Specialist, & Patent Agent

    • Apr 2021 - Jan 2024

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  CCRM

  • Canada
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • IP Specialist

    • Jun 2018 - Apr 2021

  • Commercialization Analyst

    • Mar 2016 - May 2018

    As a commercialization analyst, I conduct technology assessments of opportunities brought to CCRM, and contribute to the development of ongoing commercialization projects and academic and industrial partnerships.I am particularly involved in projects relating to intellectual property, including patent filings, freedom-to-operate analyses, and patent landscape searches.

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  University of Toronto

  • Canada
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

    As a short-term Postdoctoral Researcher, I contributed to the development of a sustained release drug delivery system, including pre-clinical testing.

  • Graduate Student Research Assistant

    • Sep 2009 - Jan 2016

    In my PhD research, I had the opportunity to further develop our lab's innovative, biomaterial-based drug delivery system. I optimized the formulation to preserve the activity of sensitive proteins, and successfully conducted the first in vivo trials for sustained, combinatorial biomolecule delivery to the injured spinal cord. I also gained experience in a wide variety of research areas, including neural stem cell culture and differentiation, polymer-based particle formulation, and animal models of central nervous system disease.

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  Ontario Science Centre

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Host

    • May 2009 - Aug 2009
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    At the Science Centre, I was one of the front-line staff, interacting with thousands of visitors of all ages. I worked in all exhibit areas, from medicine to sport to technology. I presented science demonstrations and shared my passion for learning, bringing out the curiosity in every visitor.

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  Queen's University

  • Dept. of Chemistry (Supervisor: Michael C. Baird)

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

    • May 2008 - Aug 2008
    • Dept. of Chemistry (Supervisor: Michael C. Baird)

    As a NSERC-sponsored undergraduate, I completed a project in organometallic catalysis under the supervision of Prof. Baird. Working closely with the NMR technician, Dr. Sauriol, I was able to find evidence, by low-temperature NMR, of a previously unknown intermediate in alkene polymerization. This key finding contributed to a paper in Angewandte Chemistry.

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  Ontario Science Centre

  • Summer Student Host

    • May 2007 - Aug 2007