Experience

Crosshair Therapeutics

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientist

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Sunnyvale, California, United States Currently using gene assembly to develop a very large expression system. This will later be used to develop a novel drug platform.



STATEGICS, INC.

• United States

• Scientist

  • Jun 2019 - Jul 2022

  Santa Clara County, California, United States



American Journal Experts

• Senior Editor

  • Mar 2006 - Mar 2019

  Taking research papers and grant applications by foreign researchers and polishing them for publication in high-quality journals. Includes editing and content analysis/correction.



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • 1999 - 2003

  Continued work on trp-Repressor under Prof. Oleg Jardetzky, using Molecular Biology to provide useful mutants and Biacore to analyze their interaction with several operator DNA sequences.



University of Sussex

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • 1995 - 1999

  Developed Phage Display system for stabilizing proteins • Core-directed protein design I: An experimental method for selecting stable proteins from combinatorial libraries. Finucane, M. D., Tuna M, Lees, J. & Woolfson, D. N. Biochemistry 38 11604-11612 1999 • Core-directed protein design II: Rescue of a multiply mutated and destabilised variant of Ubiquitin. Finucane, M. D. & Woolfson, D. N. Biochemistry 38 11613-11623 1999 • Dynamics, Structure and Function of Biological… Show more Developed Phage Display system for stabilizing proteins • Core-directed protein design I: An experimental method for selecting stable proteins from combinatorial libraries. Finucane, M. D., Tuna M, Lees, J. & Woolfson, D. N. Biochemistry 38 11604-11612 1999 • Core-directed protein design II: Rescue of a multiply mutated and destabilised variant of Ubiquitin. Finucane, M. D. & Woolfson, D. N. Biochemistry 38 11613-11623 1999 • Dynamics, Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules. O. Jardetzky and M. D. Finucane (Eds.) ISBN: 1 58603 032 9 IOSpress 2001 • Protease-based selection of stably folded proteins and protein domains from phage display libraries. Tuna, M., Finucane, M.D., Vlachakis, N. G. M. & Woolfson, D. N. in Phage Display (Practical Approach series, Ed. T. Clackson & H. B. Lowman), Oxford University Press 135-154 2004 Show less



Stanford

• Real Estate

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • 1992 - 1995

  Understanding the dynamics of top-repressor using relaxation studies and hydrogen-deuterium exchange



University College Dublin

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • 1987 - 1992

  Understanding the mechanism of action of serine proteases by examining transition-state mimics using C13 NMR