• Performed industry research, market sizing, competitive analysis, and due diligence.
○ Sourced, evaluated, and invested in early-stage healthcare and biotech companies.

• Business Development & Product Strategy: Shaped and supported overall business strategy through BD activities. Highly self-directed in identifying emerging trends and new business opportunities, and in extensive networking with industry experts. Cross-functional champion, collaborated with R&D, Engineering, Ops, Product, finance, and BD. Assessed biopharma client's needs, gathered insights, performed competitive landscape analysis, market research, and cost analysis, led due diligence, and identified issues and opportunities that shaped the strategy. ○ Created a framework to identify, evaluate and prioritize Pharma/Biotech partners, increased the number of qualified leads by 50%. ○ Led build vs buy analysis, identified, negotiated, drafted terms, and secured strategic collaboration with MD Anderson cancer center which led to reduction of cost by 5x and time by 2x. ○ Identified a startup with complementary capabilities and secured collaboration, enhanced internal capabilities in spati

• Cell and Gene therapy: Developed 4 novel assays to validate and evaluate experimental drugs for Alzheimer's disease in Preclinical and translational research and development.
• High-content imaging, CRISPR KO, multi-omics, and functional neuronal assays for epigenetics-targeted drugs.
• Presented our research to the c-suite and reported our progress to obtain continued support for our projects.

Lab Director Program manager Associate Scientist 2009 - 2015
• Managed a portfolio of research projects and researchers focused on various neonatal diseases.
• Business Development: Identified potential partners and successfully established 3 research collaborations, resulting in 3 grants, 4 publications and numerous abstracts.
• Performed collaborative and independent translational research, Built and Managed the Neonatal Research lab: Successfully completed 12+ projects: Experiment design, Execution, and Data Analysis. Managed relationships with over 6 cross-functional teams and initiated new scientific collaborations, Managed budget and purchasing decisions.
● Published 14 peer-reviewed research articles and 2 book chapters.
● 30+ conference presentations and abstracts.
● Written 2 NIH grants, multiple internal grants applications, and regulatory and research protocols.
● Successfully mentored 6 neonatal fellows, 4 medical doctors, 5 visiting scholars, and 2 residents.