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Sandy Slivka

Sector Navigator Life Sciences/Biotec... at <span class="not-italic font-text_font lg:text-[18px] text-[16px] font-bold claimed">California Community Colleges</span>
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Seasoned life sciences professional with 30+ years of experience in academia and industry.
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San Diego, California, United States, US
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  • Molecular Biology
  • Lifesciences
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Sandy Slivka is a seasoned professional with a strong background in molecular biology, life sciences, and research. With over 30 years of experience in academia and industry, she has held various roles as a director, professor, instructor, and research scientist. She has worked in top institutions such as UCSD, San Diego State University, and Tanabe Research Laboratories U.S.A, Inc. Sandy has also developed and taught curricula, supervised teams, and mentored students. Her expertise spans multiple fields, including biotechnology, cell biology, biochemistry, and drug discovery.

Experience

  • California Community Colleges
    • Greater San Diego Area
    • Sector Navigator Life Sciences/Biotechnology
      • 2013 - Present
      • Greater San Diego Area

      To insure that California Community Colleges have industry aligned workforce development programs that meet the life sciences industry operational workforce needs that lead to stackable industry recognized credentials.

  • San Diego Miramar College
    • Director
      • Sep 2003 - Present

      Guide the Southern California Biotechnology Center (SCBC) at San Diego Miramar College in providing curricula and training to match the needs of regional Life Sciences employers. Oversee grant funding for programs in Biotechnology, Wireless Health and Medical Laboratory Technician Training. Create articulation programs with local high schools. Oversee and support community outreach for the sciences (STEM) by creating 'give-away' programs of free science equipment for regional schools, annual science fairs open to the public and science-based youth summer camps. Supervise and instruct continuing education courses for high school science teachers. Maintain biotechnology 'boot camp' for outstanding high school students from the Greater San Diego Area. Present semi-annual seminars for biotechnology industry leaders and educators.

    • Full Professor
      • 2000 - Present

      Tenured professor at San Diego Miramar College teaching laboratory science in a variety of biotechnology programs.

  • UCSD Extension
    • Greater San Diego Area
    • Instructor
      • 2007 - 2008
      • Greater San Diego Area

      Instructor for introduction to Biotechnology classes for the non-scientist.

  • Trega Biosciences
    • San Diego, CA
    • Director, Cell and Molecular Biology
      • 1997 - 2000
      • San Diego, CA

      High throughput screening of novel anti-inflammatory and anti-obesity molecules.

  • Miramar College
    • Greater San Diego Area
    • Adjunct Professor
      • 1994 - 2000
      • Greater San Diego Area

      Adjunct professor at San Diego Miramar College teaching laboratory classes for the Biotechnician Training Program.

  • Tanabe Research Laboratories U.S.A, Inc.
    • United States
    • Sporting Goods
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Assistant Director, Biological Sciences
      • 1993 - 1997

      Team leader for design of novel chemotaxis Inhibitors; supervise animal facility

    • Research Scientist
      • 1992 - 1993

      Studied mechanism of action of lead inhibitors of inflammation.

  • Advanced Tissue Science Inc.
    • La Jolla, CA
    • Senior Research Scientist
      • 1990 - 1992
      • La Jolla, CA

      Developed/characterized in vitro skin models

  • Research Institute of Scripps Clinic
    • San Diego, CA
    • Research Fellow
      • 1988 - 1990
      • San Diego, CA

      Studied second messengers and mechanisms involved in regulation plasminogen activator inhibitor.

  • UC San Diego
    • San Diego, CA
    • Predoctoral
      • 1983 - 1988
      • San Diego, CA

      Studied alpha1-adregeneric receptor-mediated phosphatidyl-inositol hydrolysis and arachidonic acid release

  • San Diego State University
    • San Diego, CA
    • Lecturer
      • 1982 - 1985
      • San Diego, CA

      Microbiology laboratory instructor.

  • San Diego State University
    • San Diego, CA
    • California Sea Grant Trainee
      • 1979 - 1981
      • San Diego, CA

      Developed vaccine for fungal infections in shrimp.

  • Veterans Administration Hospital
    • Cleveland, OH
    • Research Biochemist
      • 1971 - 1974
      • Cleveland, OH

      Analyzed blood lipids and studied regulation of HDL, VDL

  • Mt. Sinai Hospital
    • Cleveland, OH
    • Research Assistant
      • 1968 - 1971
      • Cleveland, OH

      Purified lung surfactant: analyzed lipids in surfactant; studied fatty acyl Co-A-acyl-transferase

Education

  • UCSD
  • San Diego State University-California State University
  • Miami University

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