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Microbiologist. Highly experienced in laboratory diagnostics, research, QA, academic writing and project management

Profile Summary

Doctor of Medical Sciences, with more than 20 years of laboratory diagnostics, quality assurance, leadership, and research experiences in health care sector. Highly experienced in Microbiology and molecular biology research and diagnostics areas. Moreover, I am well trained and certified on Regulatory Affairs (RA), Medical devices, Good Distribution Practice (GDP), GMP, Medical Marketing, Clinical Trials and Good Clinical Practice- ICH GCP.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Microbiology
• ☆ Regulatory Affairs
• ☆ Medical Device Literature Reviews
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Technical Writing

Research Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Doctoral researcher

Karolinska Institutet

September 2014 - August 2018

Researcher

Karolinska Institutet

March 2014 - February 2015

Education

PhD (Laboratory medicine)

Karolinska Institutet

September 2014 - August 2018

MSc (Microbiology)

Addis Ababa University

2005 - July 2006

Certifications

• Medical Marketing

  Svensk Medicin AB, Stockholm Sweden

  February 2020 - Present

• Safe Medical Devices

  KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  December 2019 - Present

• Clinical Trials and Good Clinical Practice-ICH GCP

  Karolinska Trial Alliance, Stockholm, Sweden

  October 2019 - Present

• Essentials of Regulatory Affairs (RA) and Good Distribution Practice (GDP)

  Svensk Medicin AB in collaboration with Ingela Frick Consulting AB, Stockholm Sweden

  March 2019 - Present

• Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)

  Svensk Medicin AB in collaboration with Ingela Frick Consulting AB, Stockholm Sweden

  March 2019 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). A viral genome wide association study and genotypic resistance testing in patients failing first line antiretroviral therapy in the first large countrywide Ethiopian HIV cohort . BMC Infectious Diseases.

Nigus Fikrie Telele, Amare Worku Kalu, Solomon Gebre-Selassie, Daniel Fekade, Samir Abdurahman, Gaetano Marrone, Ujjwal Neogi, Belete Tegbaru, Anders Sönnerborg(2018). Pretreatment drug resistance in a large countrywide Ethiopian HIV-1C cohort: a comparison of Sanger and high-throughput sequencing . Scientific Reports. 8. (1). Springer Nature

Nigus Fikrie Telele, Amare Worku Kalu, Gaetano Marrone, Solomon Gebre-Selassie, Daniel Fekade, Belete Tegbaru, Anders Sönnerborg, Shixia Wang(2018). Baseline predictors of antiretroviral treatment failure and lost to follow up in a multicenter countrywide HIV-1 cohort study in Ethiopia . PLOS ONE. 13. (7). p. e0200505. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})

Coreceptor tropism and maraviroc sensitivity of clonally derived Ethiopian HIV-1C strains using an in-house phenotypic assay and commonly used genotypic methods. @article{_Kalu_2018,doi = {10.2174/1570162x16666180515124836},url = {https://doi.org/10.2174%2F1570162x16666180515124836},year = 2018,month = {may},publisher = {Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.},volume = {16},author = {Amare Worku Kalu and Nigus Fikrie Telele and Shambhu Aralaguppe and Solomon Gebre-Selassie and Daniel Fekade and Gaetano Marrone and Anders Sonnerborg},title = {Coreceptor tropism and maraviroc sensitivity of clonally derived Ethiopian {HIV}-1C strains using an in-house phenotypic assay and commonly used genotypic methods.},journal = {Current {HIV} Research}} . Current HIV Research.

Amare Worku Kalu, Michael Schindler, Nigus Fikrie Telele, Solomon Gebreselasie, Daniel Fekade, Samir Abdurahman, Gaetano Marrone, Anders Sönnerborg(2017). Prediction of coreceptor usage by five bioinformatics tools in a large Ethiopian HIV-1 subtype C cohort . PLOS ONE. 12. (8). p. e0182384. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})

Amare Worku Kalu, Nigus Fikrie Telele, Solomon Gebreselasie, Daniel Fekade, Samir Abdurahman, Gaetano Marrone, Anders Sönnerborg(2017). Monophylogenetic HIV-1C epidemic in Ethiopia is dominated by CCR5-tropic viruses–an analysis of a prospective country-wide cohort . BMC Infectious Diseases. 17. (1). Springer Nature