Greater Chicago Area
PhD Student at the University of Illinois at Chicago studying under Dr. Xiaoping Du, MD PhD. Research involves integrin signaling and its relevance to platelet and leukocyte function during hemostasis/thrombosis and inflammation. My goal is to identify novel pathways to inhibit with selective therapeutics to create more effective treatments with reduced off target impacts.
• 2nd shift QC chemist responsible for testing manufactured medical devices, hospital equipment cleansers/sterilizers, and household cleaners. Other responsibilities include incoming chemical inspections, adjusting manufactured chemicals to match specifications, microbial testing of products, preventative maintenance, investigating customer complaints, overseeing general quality of produced goods, processing data. • Technical methods include gas chromatography, titrations (auto and manual), FTIR, viscosity, enzyme testing, pH, specific gravity, refractive index, solids content, foaming properties, standardizing reagents, amongst others • ISO 9001 and 13485 Certified
• Summer research assistance in lab focused on gene targeting therapy of castration resistant metastatic cancer cells originating in the prostate. • Increased glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression following androgen blockade was found to be correlated with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) progression. Lab focus was on utilizing GR specific modulators to inhibit CRPC following androgen blockade and identify potential proliferation-associated genes. • Methods utilized include literature review, cell culture/molecular cloning, trypan blue staining, GFP proliferation assay, lysate prep, BCA protein assay, immunoblotting, qRT-PCR, IHC, RNA sequencing.
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