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Hire Dr. Deborah K.

United States

USD 70 /hr

Scientific editor/writing. Research reviews. Manuscript editing (content and language). Preclinical research.

Profile Summary

Absolutely no product development or formulation, no food science please. I do not work in a laboratory. Expert editor for English as a second language manuscripts in medicinal, organic chemistry, & preclinical research. White papers. 35 years experience (PhD in Chemistry, UIC; post doc in Chemistry UC Berkeley): 1. Faculty member in Medicinal Chemistry U of Minnesota (xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Gene Family Expert at Incyte Genomics (xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Scientist at UTMB (xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Preclincal Project Leader SRI International(xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Independent Consultant 2007-present. Please give me enough information to assess suitability for a project. Many thanks.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Preclinical Research
• ★ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Medicinal Chemistry
• ☆ Pharmacogenomics
• ☆ Pharmacovigilance/Drug Safety Monitoring
• ☆ Herbal Medicine
• ☆ Psychoactive Drugs
• ☆ White Papers

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Technical Writing

Research Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Work Experience

Principal

Self Employed; Independent Consultant

2007 - Present

Preclinical Project Leader

SRI International

2005 - 2007

Scientist/lead on multidisciplinary infectious disease project

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

2003 - 2005

Senior Scientist

Incyte Genomics Inc

2000 - 2003

Assistant, then tenured Associate Professor

University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy

1990 - 2001

Education

Post Doctoral Research Associate (Chemistry)

University of California Berkeley

1986 - 1989

PhD Biophysical Chemistry (Chemistry)

University of Illinois at Chicago

1981 - 1987

BA Chemistry (Chemistry)

University of Illinois at Chicago

1975 - 1980

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2005). The effects of thiophosphate substitutions on native siRNA gene silencing . Biochemical and biophysical research communications.

(2004). 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments for domain III of the West Nile virus envelope protein . Journal of biomolecular NMR.

(2004). Solution structure and antibody binding studies of the envelope protein domain III from the New York strain of West Nile virus . The Journal of biological chemistry.

(2001). Distribution and diffusion of sodium taurocholate and egg phosphatidylcholine aggregates in rat intestinal mucin . Pharmaceutical research.

(2001). Analysis of the diffusion of bile salt/phospholipid micelles in rat intestinal mucin . Chemistry and physics of lipids.

(2001). Interaction of bile salt and phospholipids with bovine submaxillary mucin . Pharmaceutical research.

(1999). Sequence-dependent conformational differences of small RNAs revealed by native gel electrophoresis . Analytical biochemistry.

(1999). NMR investigation and secondary structure of domains I and II of rat brain calbindin D28k (1-93) . European journal of biochemistry.

(1997). Structural model of a cyclic dynorphin A analog bound to dodecylphosphocholine micelles by NMR and restrained molecular dynamics . Journal of medicinal chemistry.

(1997). Role of tryptophan-14 in the interaction of dynorphin A(1-17) with micelles . The journal of peptide research : official journal of the American Peptide Society.

(1997). NMR and structural model of dynorphin A (1-17) bound to dodecylphosphocholine micelles . Biochemistry.

(1995). The use of dodecylphosphocholine micelles in solution NMR . Journal of magnetic resonance. Series B.

(1995). Hairpin opening by single-strand-specific nucleases . Nucleic acids research.

(1991). 1H NMR of 5'CGCGTATATACGCG3', a duplex and a four-membered loop . Nucleic acids research.

(1989). 31P NMR of covalent phosphorylated derivatives of alpha-chymotrypsin . Biochemistry.