Skills:
I am a highly motivated team player with extensive research experience in assay development, pharmacology, biomarkers of autoimmune and inflammatory cytokines, target validation, multiplex immunoassays, microfluidics, cell culture, proteomics, antibody development and validation, nucleic acid and protein detection (PCR, qRT-PCR, and Western blotting), cytotoxicity assays (MTT assay), automated assay devices, expression vector transfection, siRNA, short hairpin lentiviral and retroviral stable gene knock-down analysis, anchorage-independent and dependent growth assays, fluorescence and confocal microscopy, data analysis (with programs such as Excel, PRISM, and Image J), apoptotic assays (Annexin V/PI staining), flow cytometry, invasion assays, pulldown analysis, reverse-phase protein lysate microarrays, silica nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems and tissue microarrays.