
Selected Highlights
2017 – Present
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Completion of Developing Frontline Leaders Course
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Commitments Award: Outstanding contributions towards project management & in the spirit of customer service.
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Business / Scientific assessment for many potential opportunities resulting in 21 won projects worth > $69 million in revenue from April 2017 to March 2020
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Managed six high-value drug development projects to their successful conclusion
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Coordinated proposals and research projects with clients and CRO/CMO.
2014 – 2017
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Co-founded a start-up company, Bio Logic Insecticide
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Established a business case for in-house development for future business. ~ 15-20 mil potential revenue sale
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Delivered robust, scalable, and cost-effective manufacturing routes that exceeded the target clinical profile
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Managed CRO/CMO activities & laboratory research
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7 issued patents & 9 patent applications from 2005 to 2015
2009 – 2014
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Initiated in-house process research; saved time and money
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Reduced the COGs from $15,000 / kg to $1,400 / kg via a new development process (own developed); new IP for the company
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Developed a scalable route for a potent and selective A2B receptor antagonist
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Coordinated technology transfer (own developed) from lab scale to manufacturing plant
2005 – 2009
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Developed first chemical preparation of chiral boronic acid-pyrrolidine for Dutogliptin, key for patent filing
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Designed a synthetic route toward a flexible scaffold for 5HT2c
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Conducted structure-based drug design approach for multiple projects (CB2, p70S6K, m-TOR, and Akt)
1995 – 2005
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Excellent in Research Award - Chemical Development
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R&D Award - Medicinal Chemistry
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Total Synthesis of Antitumor Agent, (-)-Epothilone A / B
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A.R. Johannson Teaching Award
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Graduate Award for Excellence in Research
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Marsh Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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America Institute of Chemists Foundation Award
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America Institute of Chemists Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior