Cancer Biologist: Biomarker Through Molecular Biological Techniques

Expertise

• MicroRNA and ncRNA
• Biomarker discovery
• High throughput genomics and transcritptomics
• Cancer (hematological malignancies and solid tumors)
• Molecular biology
• Bioinformatic analysis and pipeline development
• Project management
• Clinical liaisons and clinical trial development
• Biomedicine MicroRNA and ncRNA
• Biomedicine

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Director- Oncology Research, 2011 - Present

• Setting up and managing Oncology research program at Biomedical Research Institute which forms part of provincial reference hospital.
• Increasing visibility of regional science and facilitating recruitment of international talent to institute.
• Managing own research group and PIs of other research groups.
• Sourcing funding in competitive calls.
• Managing personnel and individual projects.
• Liaising with clinicians and other healthcare professionals.
• Supervisor of doctoral students.
• Publication and presentation of research findings in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.
• Next generation sequencing (WGS; RNAseq etc.), microarray based techniques (miRNA, transcriptome), lentiviral library functional screening techniques, PAR-CLIP etc.

University of Oxford, (Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences), Oxford, U.K, 2003 - 2011

Principal Investigator of Lymphoid Malignancy Research Group (LMRG)

• Setting up and managing research group.
• Sourcing funding in competitive calls.
• Managing personnel and individual projects.
• Liaising with clinicians and other healthcare professionals.
• Publication and presentation of research findings in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.
• Molecular biological techniques aimed at the discovery of novel biomarkers for hematological malignancies (lymphomas).

Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, U.K., 2000 - 2002

Principal Investigator of Research Group, (NERC Institute)

• Setting up and managing research group.
• Sourcing funding in competitive calls.
• Managing personnel and individual projects.
• Molecular biological (and immunological/protein chemistry) techniques to develop diagnostic reagents for virus infection (WNV, Dengue etc.) and development of tick-derived molecules as novel pharmaceutical agents.

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• Ikerbasque Research Professor
• Marie Curie Fellow
• University Research lecturer (University of Oxford)
• Julian Starmer-Smith lymphoma research fund fellow

Languages

• Spanish - Fluent

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Reviewer for many journals including PLoS Medicine, Nature c., EMBO, Blood, Cancer Research, Leukemia, PLoG Genetics and RNA.
• Reviewer of many program and project grants, including National Cancer Institute of Canada ($8.5 million) and The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development.
• On the Editorial Board for the following journals:
• Journal of Cancer Research (Associate editor)
• Cancers
• Journal of RNAi and Gene Silencing
• Open Journal of Hematology
• World Journal of Clinical Oncology
• American Journal of Blood
• ISRN Hematology
• World Journal of Hematology
• Cancer Reports
• BioMed Research International
• Journal of Tumors

Awards

• Merit awards (Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford)
• 16 awarded grants ($2.5 million)

Publications and Patents

• Author and Co-Author of 59 publications in peer reviewed journals, 2 books and 6 chapters.
• Hosted over 40 presentations
• 2 Patents

Education

• Ph.D. Biological Sciences, Trinity College, Oxford, U.K.
• M.Sc Biochemistry, Trinity College, Oxford, U.K.
• B.A. Biochemistry, (With Honors) Trinity College, Oxford, U.K.