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 Selected Highlights

2017 – Present

 

  • Completion of Developing Frontline Leaders Course

  • Commitments Award: Outstanding contributions towards project management & in the spirit of customer service.

  • Business / Scientific assessment for many potential opportunities resulting in 21 won projects worth > $69 million in revenue from April 2017 to March 2020

  • Managed six high-value drug development projects to their successful conclusion

  • Coordinated proposals and research projects with clients and CRO/CMO.

2014 – 2017 

  • Co-founded a start-up company, Bio Logic Insecticide

  • Established a business case for in-house development for future business. ~ 15-20 mil potential revenue sale

  • Delivered robust, scalable, and cost-effective manufacturing routes that exceeded the target clinical profile

  • Managed CRO/CMO activities & laboratory research

  • 7 issued patents & 9 patent applications from 2005 to 2015

2009 – 2014 

  • Initiated in-house process research; saved time and money

  • Reduced the COGs from $15,000 / kg to $1,400 / kg via a new development process (own developed); new IP for the company

  • Developed a scalable route for a potent and selective A2B receptor antagonist

  • Coordinated technology transfer (own developed) from lab scale to manufacturing plant

2005 – 2009

  • Developed first chemical preparation of chiral boronic acid-pyrrolidine for Dutogliptin, key for patent filing

  • Designed a synthetic route toward a flexible scaffold for 5HT2c

  • Conducted structure-based drug design approach for multiple projects (CB2, p70S6K, m-TOR, and Akt)

1995 – 2005

  • Excellent in Research Award - Chemical Development

  • R&D Award - Medicinal Chemistry

  • Total Synthesis of Antitumor Agent, (-)-Epothilone A / B

  • A.R. Johannson Teaching Award

  • Graduate Award for Excellence in Research

  • Marsh Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

  • America Institute of Chemists Foundation Award

  • America Institute of Chemists Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior

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