Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
I am a molecular biologist (PhD), specialised in immunology. I am a curious, driven and enthusiastic person and due to my eagerness to learn, I am able to quickly master diverse skills. My communication skills allow for effective and targeted communication between different stakeholders, moreover I like communication at different levels, from laymen to expert and from detail to overarching process. The alternation between projects and work environment (lab versus laptop) energises me and keeps me motivated and active.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Scout and identify new potential partnerships and provide content-driven input for collaboration activities in the precision medicine space, including oncology, infectious diseases and hereditary diseases • Scope and develop CDx co-development projects, including draft partnership frameworks and project budgets • Work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders, including marketing, legal, finance, operations, R&D and senior leadership, to drive joint activities to facilitate companion diagnostics projects • Organize IVD development for investigational use in clinical trials and manage performance study applications under IVDR and IDE oversight • Establish and develop internal procedures for current and future Companion Diagnostics projects • Internal and external project management, including management of external sub-contractors
Together with five other project managers R&D, I am responsible for the different reagents R&D projects within GenDx. These responsibilities consist of among others daily supervision of technicians on the different R&D projects, keeping track of the timelines, internal and external stakeholder management. I am mainly responsible for our Companion Diagnostics projects; A collection of projects with external stakeholders in which we develop diagnostic solution to be used for patient selection for the development and use of (oncological) therapies and personalized medicine.
Together with three other team members, we are responsible for non-routine diagnostic testing for the Center for Diagnostic Solutions (CDS) at MSD Animal Health Boxmeer. Furthermore, we will be responsible for transfer of new tests and analysis from R&D to the CDS. In my role as teamlead, I am responsible for the performance of the Projectteam, division of new projects and will be one of the driving forces for innovation and integration of new tests within the CDS, such as the integration of NGS in diagnostics.
Together with an industrial partner (Olmix Group – France), I am responsible for testing different waste products and their valorisation as immuno-modulatory feed-additives in three important aquaculture species. Key responsibilities: - Ethical application of animal experiments. - Planning, organisation and execution of six animal trials. - Communication with industrial partners and stakeholders. - Presentation of key findings to scientific community - Supervision of eight master students, who assisted in the execution and analysis of different experiments. - Design, development and organisation of two field trials, scheduled for half 2021 in Vietnam and Norway with two industrial partners (Skretting and De Heus). Other responsibilities: - Team lead; organising scientific meetings, communication to team, managing technicians and students. - Instructor during introduction days of a graduate school of Wageningen University. - Investigative role in setting up new research line in our group, mainly exploratory talks with commercial parties. - Lecturing and practical supervision during the Nutrition and Health in Aquaculture course. - Consolatory role in several projects: functional genome annotation, immuno-regulation of placenta in live baring fish.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funded project in collaboration with the university of Sao Paulo. Thesis entitled “Modulation of innate immunity in carp. Diverse approaches to ß-glucan-mediated responses” (Promotors: Geert F. Wiegertjes and Maria Forlenza). Aims: - Investigate “trained immunity” in primary cell cultures of fish. - Investigate potential β-glucan receptors in common carp with NGS. - Investigate role of intestinal metabolites in immunological effects of β-glucan supplementation in fish. Key responsibilities: - Planning, organisation and execution of primary in vitro cultures. - Supervision of MSc students. - Plan and execute animal experiments. - Analysis of RNAseq data. - Data presentation at weekly scientific meetings. Other responsibilities: - Chair group - PhD representative; during chair group meetings spokesperson for the PhD candidates. - Involved in restructuring of the chair group policy towards the teaching load of PhD candidates. - Teaching assistant of the Human and Veterinary Immunology course.
Subject: Cloning and Characterization of zebrafish finTRIM protein. The internship focused on the analysis of the biological functioning of 3 finTRIM proteins in zebrafish. The analysis was performed with the use of a viral infection model and based on viral titration assays and gene response measured with RT-qPCR.
Side job as a security officer at a datacentre. Key responsibilities: - Arrange visitor access to the building. - Hospitality as a service. - Security and safety of the building and its employees. For this job I finished the MBO2 study Security in parallel to my normal study.