Experience

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  Johns Hopkins Hospital

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Research Assistant

    • Apr 2017 - Present
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    - Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation (ERGOT), Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital- Recruiting live kidney donors for the WHOLE Donor Study, a multi-center follow-up study examining the long-term health outcomes of kidney donors

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  Johns Hopkins University

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Research Assistant

    • Jan 2016 - Present
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    - Gerecht Lab at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology- Assisting in the study of the induction and functionality of vascular cell derivatives from progenitor and pluripotent stem cells.- Performing experiments and techniques that include stem cell and tissue culture, PCR analysis, gel electrophoresis, cDNA preparation, western blotting, antibody staining for western blots and microscopic observation/image analysis.

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  Kennedy Krieger Institute

  • Data Analyst

    • Oct 2014 - Present

    - Data entry and analysis of polysomnographs, behavior questionnaires, and lab results of patients with Down syndrome in a study on a possible correlation between sleep apnea and behavior in children with Down syndrome- Assist in administrative tasks with the clinical coordinator, such as organizing patient charts and preparing family history reports for evaluation reports

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  Baylor College of Medicine

  • Research Assistant

    • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

    - Assisted in a research project exploring the mechanism by which sirtuins are degraded and how the degradation of sirtuins affects the replicative lifespan in yeast cells- Performed techniques and experiments include western blotting, small scale old cell sorting, co-immunoprecipitation, yeast and E.coli transformation, PCR cloning and purification, gel electrophoresis, genomic DNA extraction, plasmid mini-preparation