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PhD in Molecular Biology from MIT | Expert in CRISPR/Cas | Project Manager | 1st Employee of a biotech startup

Profile Summary

I am a R&D scientist and project manager with 6+ years of experience in two different early start up companies. - I have developed gene editing technologies for pharmaceutical or agricultural use. - I have led several projects and completed the full project life cycle: determined the project's scope, identified stakeholders, created a project plan, managed budgeting, conducted risk assessments, performed project mapping, executed the project ensuring communication, and facilitated project closure. - I was the first employee of a therapeutics company and helping the company grow to over 50 people in less than two years. I effectively prioritized and executed various operational, scientific, recruiting, or procurement needs to help initiate the company. - I have experiencing teaching or tutoring students ranging from high school, college, or graduate students. I also helped author educational text or questions.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Gene Editing/CRISPR
• ★ Project Management
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Biochemical Assays
• ☆ Enzyme Activity Assays
• ☆ Binding Assays
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Recombinant DNA
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ DNA/Gene Synthesis
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Stem Cell Research
• ☆ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ☆ Recombinant Protein Expression
• ☆ Synthetic Biology
• ☆ Agricultural Biotechnology
• ☆ Biomolecular Engineering
• ☆ Gene Synthesis
• ☆ Genetic Engineering
• ☆ Protein/Enzyme Engineering
• ☆ Gene Delivery
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Gene Therapy
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Textbook Content Writing
• ☆ Course Content Writing
• ☆ Business Operations
• ☆ Small Business
• ☆ Data-Driven Decision Making
• ☆ Risk Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Technology Scouting, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Senior Scientist Project Manager

Aera Therapeutics

October 2021 - August 2023

Scientist

Inari

September 2017 - October 2021

Education

PhD Molecular Biology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

September 2011 - June 2017

BS Biology

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

September 2007 - June 2011

Certifications

• Kaufman Teaching Certificate

  MIT

  https://tll.mit.edu/programming/grad-student-programming/kaufman-teaching-certificate-program/

  February 2014 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Pyzocha NK, SIDI CHEN (2017). Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Effector Proteins for Genome Engineering Applications . ACS chemical biology.

Shmakov S, Smargon A, Scott D, Cox D, Pyzocha N, Yan W, Abudayyeh OO, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Makarova KS, Yuri I. Wolf, et al. (2017). Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems . Nature reviews. Microbiology.

Smargon AA, Cox DBT, Pyzocha NK, Zheng K, Slaymaker IM, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Abudayyeh OA, Patrick Essletzbichler, Shmakov S, Makarova KS, et al. (2017). Cas13b Is a Type VI-B CRISPR-Associated RNA-Guided RNase Differentially Regulated by Accessory Proteins Csx27 and Csx28 . Molecular cell.

Pyzocha NK, Ran FA, Patrick Hsu, Zhang F (2014). RNA-guided genome editing of mammalian cells . Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.).

Krishanu Saha, Ying Mei, Reisterer CM, Pyzocha NK, jing yang, Julien Muffat, Martyn Davies, Morgan Alexander, Langer R, Anderson DG, et al. (2011). Surface-engineered substrates for improved human pluripotent stem cell culture under fully defined conditions . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Tsamaloukas AD, Pyzocha NK, George Makhatadze (2010). Pressure perturbation calorimetry of unfolded proteins . The journal of physical chemistry. B.

Ying Mei, Krishanu Saha, Bogatyrev SR, jing yang, Andrew L. Hook, Kalcioglu ZI, Cho SW, Mitalipova M, Pyzocha N, Rojas F, et al. (2010). Combinatorial development of biomaterials for clonal growth of human pluripotent stem cells . Nature materials.