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Hire Dr. Ntube Olive N.

United States

USD 70 /hr

Toxicologist with 13+ years of experience in scientific research, technical report writing, peer literature review

Profile Summary

* Experience in conceiving, planning, designing, executing, and troubleshooting toxicology studies using various molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology techniques * Experience with metals-induced environmental diseases including cancer and atherosclerosis using both in vitro and in vivo disease models * Experience in data analysis of toxicological studies and reporting data into clear and concise reports * Experience in writing toxicological technical documentations and reports following guidelines provided by the client e.g the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) * Experience in advanced PUBMED search, literature screening and summaries * Experience in scientific literature review, data extraction and summary per client's contract specifications * Superior scientific and manuscript writing skills demonstrated by the authorship of several peer reviewed publications and a book chapter * Peer reviewer for the journal of toxicology and applied pharmacology. Experience in the critical review of scientific content, editing, and proof reading

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ★ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Metallurgy
• ☆ Biology/Life Sciences
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Cancer Research
• ☆ Research
• ☆ Regulatory Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Technical Writing

Research Systematic Literature Review

Work Experience

Research Associate

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

October 2017 - Present

Research Associate

University of Kentucky

October 2017 - Present

Post-doctoral fellow

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

October 2011 - April 2017

Toxicologist

SciMetrika LLC

May 2016 - January 2017

Toxicologist

SciMetrika, LLC, Durham, NC, USA

May 2016 - January 2017

Post-doctoral fellow

National Toxicology Program (NTP) at NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

October 2011 - April 2016

Education

Ph.D. Pharmacology and Toxicology

University of Louisville, KY, USA

August 2007 - August 2011

Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology (Pharmacology and Toxicology)

University of Louisville

August 2007 - August 2011

Bio- and Food Technology

Lund University, Sweden

August 2003 - December 2004

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2018). Arsenic Alters Exosome Quantity and Cargo to Mediate Stem Cell Recruitment Into a Cancer Stem Cell-Like Phenotype . Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology.

(2016). Silencing KRAS Overexpression in Cadmium-Transformed Prostate Epithelial Cells Mitigates Malignant Phenotype . Chemical research in toxicology.

(2015). Mitigation of arsenic-induced acquired cancer phenotype in prostate cancer stem cells by miR-143 restoration . Toxicology and applied pharmacology.

(2015). Chronic inorganic arsenic exposure in vitro induces a cancer cell phenotype in human peripheral lung epithelial cells . Toxicology and applied pharmacology.

(2014). Silencing KRAS overexpression in arsenic-transformed prostate epithelial and stem cells partially mitigates malignant phenotype . Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology.

(2014). Aberrant microRNA expression likely controls RAS oncogene activation during malignant transformation of human prostate epithelial and stem cells by arsenic . Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology.

(2013). Chronic cadmium exposure in vitro induces cancer cell characteristics in human lung cells . Toxicology and applied pharmacology.

(2013). Recruitment of normal stem cells to an oncogenic phenotype by noncontiguous carcinogen-transformed epithelia depends on the transforming carcinogen . Environmental health perspectives.

(2012). Delayed temporal increase of hepatic Hsp70 in ApoE knockout mice after prenatal arsenic exposure . Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology.

(2012). Prenatal arsenic exposure alters gene expression in the adult liver to a proinflammatory state contributing to accelerated atherosclerosis . PloS one.

Investigating the Role of Mitochondrial Respiratory Dysfunction During Hexavalent Chromium-Induced Lung Carcinogenesis. J. Environ. Pathol. Toxicol. Oncol.