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Freelance medical and science writer with 18+ years of experience

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I earned my PhD in Physiology investigating factors regulating vascular pathology and then completed postdoctoral training in transcriptome profiling in the contexts of cardiac and stem cell biology. I have experience in bioinformatics and network biology, and am well versed in differential gene expression (DGE), gene regulatory network (GRN) and protein-protein interaction (PPI) analyses. Upon completion of my research fellowship, I started and developed a research program in Cardiac Systems Biology, specifically focused on understanding idiopathic mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis. As a Principal Investigator in this area, I was supported by grants from the American Heart Association as well as the National Institutes of Health. I have extensive experience publishing, editing, and reviewing a variety of scientific literature that include manuscripts and grant proposals. My publications can be seen below, as well as at the following link: (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/randy.faustino.1/bibliography/public/). In addition to my research interests, I am the Founder and CEO of med/STEM Communications, a medical and scientific writing service geared towards helping clinical and scientific professionals with their writing needs. I am also the co-Founder and Scientific Director of the STaR Program, a competitive STEM training program geared towards helping high school juniors and seniors develop a research project and refine their scientific acumen.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Transcriptomics
• ★ Stem Cell Research
• ★ Cardiovascular Disease
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Cell-Based Assays
• ☆ Cell Signaling Pathways
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Blotting
• ☆ Sports Science
• ☆ Exercise Physiology
• ☆ Human Biology
• ☆ Vascular Medicine
• ☆ Medical Sciences

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Medical Writing, Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing, Newswriting, Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Co-founder and Scientific Director

The STaR Program

May 2022 - Present

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

University of South Dakota

September 2021 - Present

Founder and CEO

med/STEM Communications, LLC

September 2021 - Present

Assistant Scientist

Sanford Research

November 2016 - September 2021

Education

PhD (Physiology)

University of Manitoba

June 1996 - October 2004

BSC (Microbiology)

University of Manitoba

September 1992 - July 1996

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Preston, C.C., Stoddard, A.C., Faustino, R.S.(2022). A Transient Mystery: Nucleolar Channel Systems . Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation. 70. p. 581-593.

Faustino, R.S., Landry, M.N., Gavel, N.T., Czubryt, M.P., Pierce, G.N.(2005). The influence of lipids on nuclear protein import, cell growth, and gene expression . Nutrients and Cell Signaling. p. 411-438.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Gary P. Van Guilder, Claudia C. Preston, Thayne A. Munce, Randolph S. Faustino(2021). Reply to Schmitz . American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 321. (4). p. H665--H666. American Physiological Society

Gary P. Van Guilder, Claudia C. Preston, Thayne A. Munce, Randolph S. Faustino(2021). Impacts of circulating microRNAs in exercise-induced vascular remodeling . American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 320. (6). p. H2401--H2415. American Physiological Society

Rizvi, F., Preston, C.C., Emelyanova, L., Yousufuddin, M., Viqar, M., Dakwar, O., Ross, G.R., Faustino, R.S., Holmuhamedov, E.L., Jahangir, A.(2021). Effects of aging on cardiac oxidative stress and transcriptional changes in pathways of reactive oxygen species generation and clearance . Journal of the American Heart Association. 10. (16).

van Guilder, G.P., Preston, C.C., Munce, T.A., Faustino, R.S.(2021). Reply to Schmitz et al . American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 321. (4). p. H665-H666.

Van Guilder, G.P., Preston, C.C., Munce, T.A., Faustino, R.S.(2021). Impacts of circulating microRNAs in exercise-induced vascular remodeling . American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 320. (6). p. H2401-H2415.

Leonard, R.J., Preston, C.C., Gucwa, M.E., Afeworki, Y., Selya, A.S., Faustino, R.S.(2020). Corrigendum: Protein Subdomain Enrichment of NUP155 Variants Identify a Novel Predicted Pathogenic Hotspot (Front. Cardiovasc. Med., (2020), 7, (8), 10.3389/fcvm.2020.00008) . Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 7.

Preston, C.C., Larsen, T.D., Eclov, J.A., Louwagie, E.J., Gandy, T.C.T., Faustino, R.S., Baack, M.L.(2020). Maternal High Fat Diet and Diabetes Disrupts Transcriptomic Pathways That Regulate Cardiac Metabolism and Cell Fate in Newborn Rat Hearts . Frontiers in Endocrinology. 11.

Burdine, R.D., Preston, C.C., Leonard, R.J., Bradley, T.A., Faustino, R.S.(2020). Nucleoporins in cardiovascular disease . Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 141. p. 43-52.

Leonard, R.J., Preston, C.C., Gucwa, M.E., Afeworki, Y., Selya, A.S., Faustino, R.S.(2020). Protein Subdomain Enrichment of NUP155 Variants Identify a Novel Predicted Pathogenic Hotspot . Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 7.

Neri, T., Hiriart, E., van Vliet, P.P., Faure, E., Norris, R.A., Farhat, B., Jagla, B., Lefrancois, J., Sugi, Y., Moore-Morris, T., et al.(2019). Human pre-valvular endocardial cells derived from pluripotent stem cells recapitulate cardiac pathophysiological valvulogenesis . Nature Communications. 10. (1).

Preston, C.C., Storm, E.C., Burdine, R.D., Bradley, T.A., Uttecht, A.D., Faustino, R.S.(2019). Nucleoporin insufficiency disrupts a pluripotent regulatory circuit in a pro-arrhythmogenic stem cell line . Scientific Reports. 9. (1).

Preston, C.C., Storm, E.C., Leonard, R.J., Faustino, R.S.(2019). Emerging roles for nucleoporins in reproductive cellular physiology . Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 97. (4). p. 257-264.

Claudia C. Preston, Saranya P. Wyles, Santiago Reyes, Emily C. Storm, Bruce W. Eckloff, Randolph S. Faustino(2018). NUP155 insufficiency recalibrates a pluripotent transcriptome with network remodeling of a cardiogenic signaling module . BMC Systems Biology. 12. (1). Springer Nature

Randy Faustino, Claudia C. Preston (2018). Nuclear Envelope Regulation of Oncogenic Processes: Roles in Pancreatic Cancer . Epigenomes.

Preston, C.C., Faustino, R.S.(2018). Nuclear envelope regulation of oncogenic processes: Roles in pancreatic cancer . Epigenomes. 2. (3).

McKenzie, C.W., Preston, C.C., Finn, R., Eyster, K.M., Faustino, R.S., Lee, L.(2018). Strain-specific differences in brain gene expression in a hydrocephalic mouse model with motile cilia dysfunction . Scientific Reports. 8. (1).

Preston, C.C., Wyles, S.P., Reyes, S., Storm, E.C., Eckloff, B.W., Faustino, R.S.(2018). NUP155 insufficiency recalibrates a pluripotent transcriptome with network remodeling of a cardiogenic signaling module . BMC Systems Biology. 12. (1).

Birendra, K.C., May, D.G., Benson, B.V., Kim, D.I., Shivega, W.G., Ali, M.H., Faustino, R.S., Campos, A.R., Roux, K.J.(2017). VRK2A is an A-type lamin-dependent nuclear envelope kinase that phosphorylates BAF . Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28. (17). p. 2241-2250.

Faustino, R.S., Behfar, A., Groenendyk, J., Wyles, S.P., Niederlander, N., Reyes, S., Puceat, M., Michalak, M., Terzic, A., Perez-Terzic, C.(2016). Calreticulin secures calcium-dependent nuclear pore competency required for cardiogenesis . Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 92. p. 63-74.

Faustino, R.S., Wyles, S.P., Groenendyk, J., Michalak, M., Terzic, A., Perez-Terzic, C.(2015). Systems biology surveillance decrypts pathological transcriptome remodeling . BMC Systems Biology. 9. (1).

Wyles, S.P., Faustino, R.S., Li, X., Terzic, A., Nelson, T.J.(2015). Systems-Based Technologies in Profiling the Stem Cell Molecular Framework for Cardioregenerative Medicine . Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 11. (3). p. 501-510.

Folmes, C.D.L., Martinez-Fernandez, A., Faustino, R.S., Yamada, S., Perez-Terzic, C., Nelson, T.J., Terzic, A.(2013). Nuclear reprogramming with c-Myc potentiates glycolytic capacity of derived induced pluripotent stem cells . Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. 6. (1). p. 10-21.

Faustino, R.S., Arrell, D.K., Folmes, C.D.L., Terzic, A., Perez-Terzic, C.(2013). Stem cell systems informatics for advanced clinical biodiagnostics: Tracing molecular signatures from bench to bedside . Croatian Medical Journal. 54. (4). p. 319-329.

Dzeja, P.P., Chung, S., Faustino, R.S., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2011). Developmental enhancement of adenylate kinase-AMPK metabolic signaling axis supports stem cell cardiac differentiation . PLoS ONE. 6. (4).

Faustino, R.S., Maddaford, T.G., Pierce, G.N.(2011). Mitogen activated protein kinase at the nuclear pore complex . Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 15. (4). p. 928-937.

Chiriac, A., Nelson, T.J., Faustino, R.S., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2010). Cardiogenic induction of pluripotent stem cells streamlined through a conserved SDF-1/VEGF/BMP2 integrated network . PLoS ONE. 5. (4).

Faustino, R.S., Chiriac, A., Niederlander, N.J., Nelson, T.J., Behfar, A., Mishra, P.K., Macura, S., Michalak, M., Terzic, A., Perez-Terzic, C.(2010). Decoded calreticulin-deficient embryonic stem cell transcriptome resolves latent cardiophenotype . Stem Cells. 28. (7). p. 1281-1291.

Chung, S., Arrell, D.K., Faustino, R.S., Terzic, A., Dzeja, P.P.(2010). Glycolytic network restructuring integral to the energetics of embryonic stem cell cardiac differentiation . Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 48. (4). p. 725-734.

Chiriac, A., Terzic, A., Park, S., Ikeda, Y., Faustino, R., Nelson, T.J.(2010). SDF-1-enhanced cardiogenesis requires CXCR4 induction in pluripotent stem cells . Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. 3. (6). p. 674-682.

Nelson, T.J., Chiriac, A., Faustino, R.S., Crespo-Diaz, R.J., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2009). Lineage specification of Flk-1⁺ progenitors is associated with divergent Sox7 expression in cardiopoiesis . Differentiation. 77. (3). p. 248-255.

Faustino, R.S., Terzic, A.(2008). Bioinformatic networks: Molecular reticles for pinpointing pharmacological target selection . Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 84. (5). p. 543-545.

Nelson, T.J., Faustino, R.S., Chiriac, A., Crespo-Diaz, R., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2008). CXCR4⁺/FLK-1⁺ biomarkers select a cardiopoietic lineage from embryonic stem cells . Stem Cells. 26. (6). p. 1464-1473.

Faustino, R.S., Chiriac, A., Terzic, A.(2008). Bioinformatic primer for clinical and translational science . Clinical and Translational Science. 1. (2). p. 174-180.

Arrell, D.K., Niederländer, N.J., Faustino, R.S., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2008). Cardioinductive network guiding stem cell differentiation revealed by proteomic cartography of tumor necrosis factor α-primed endodermal secretome . Stem Cells. 26. (2). p. 387-400.

Faustino, R.S., Cheung, P., Richard, M.N., Dibrov, E., Kneesch, A.L., Deniset, J.F., Chahine, M.N., Lee, K., Blackwood, D., Pierce, G.N.(2008). Ceramide regulation of nuclear protein import . Journal of Lipid Research. 49. (3). p. 654-662.

Faustino, R.S., Behfar, A., Perez-Terzic, C., Terzic, A.(2008). Genomic chart guiding embryonic stem cell cardiopoiesis . Genome Biology. 9. (1).

Behfar, A., Faustino, R.S., Arrell, D.K., Dzeja, P.P., Perez-Terzic, C., Terzic, A.(2008). Guided stem cell cardiopoiesis: Discovery and translation . Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 45. (4). p. 523-529.

Faustino, R.S., Terzic, A.(2008). Interactome of a cardiopoietic precursor . Journal of cardiovascular translational research. 1. (2). p. 120-126.

Behfar, A., Perez-Terzic, C., Faustino, R.S., Arrell, D.K., Hodgson, D.M., Yamada, S., Puceat, M., Niederländer, N., Alekseev, A.E., Zingman, L.V., et al.(2007). Cardiopoietic programming of embryonic stem cells for tumor-free heart repair . Journal of Experimental Medicine. 204. (2). p. 405-420.

Chung, S., Dzeja, P.P., Faustino, R.S., Perez-Terzic, C., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2007). Mitochondrial oxidative metabolism is required for the cardiac differentiation of stem cells . Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine. 4. (SUPPL. 1).

Faustino, R.S., Stronger, L.N.W., Richard, M.N., Czubryt, M.P., Ford, D.A., Prociuk, M.A., Dibrov, E., Pierce, G.N.(2007). RanGAP-mediated nuclear protein import in vascular smooth muscle cells is augmented by lysophosphatidylcholine . Molecular Pharmacology. 71. (2). p. 438-445.

Faustino, R.S., Nelson, T.J., Terzic, A., Perez-Terzic, C.(2007). Nuclear transport: Target for therapy . Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 81. (6). p. 880-886.

Perez-Terzic, C., Faustino, R.S., Boorsma, B.J., Arrell, D.K., Niederländer, N.J., Behfar, A., Terzic, A.(2007). Stem cells transform into a cardiac phenotype with remodeling of the nuclear transport machinery . Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine. 4. (SUPPL. 1).

Faustino, R.S., Rousseau, D.C., Landry, M.N., Kostenuk, A.L., Pierce, G.N.(2006). Effects of mitogen-activated protein kinases on nuclear protein import . Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 84. (3-4). p. 469-475.

Yamada, S., Kane, G.C., Behfar, A., Liu, X.-K., Dyer, R.B., Faustino, R.S., Miki, T., Seino, S., Terzic, A.(2006). Protection conferred by myocardial ATP-sensitive K⁺ channels in pressure overload-induced congestive heart failure revealed in KCNJ11 Kir6.2-null mutant . Journal of Physiology. 577. (3). p. 1053-1065.

Faustino, R.S., Clark, T.A., Sobrattee, S., Czubryl, M.P., Pierce, G.N.(2004). Differential antioxidant properties of red wine in water soluble and lipid soluble peroxyl radical generating systems . Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 263. (1). p. 211-215.

Faustino, R.S., Sobrattee, S., Edel, A.L., Pierce, G.N.(2003). Comparative analysis of the phenolic content of selected Chilean, Canadian and American Merlot red wines . Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 249. (1-2). p. 11-19.

Dong, Z., Zelmer, C.D., Canny, M.J., McCully, M.E., Luit, B., Pan, B., Faustino, R.S., Pierce, G.N., Vessey, J.K.(2002). Evidence for protection of nitrogenase from O₂ by colony structure in the aerobic diazotroph Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus . Microbiology. 148. (8). p. 2293-2298.

OTHER

Preston, C.C., Larsen, T.D., Eclov, J.A., Louwagie, E.J., Gandy, T.C.T., Faustino, R.S., Baack, M.L.(2020). Maternal High Fat Diet and Diabetes Disrupts Transcriptomic Pathways that Regulate Cardiac Metabolism and Cell Fate in Newborn Rat Hearts . ResearchSquare.

Neri, T., Hiriart, E., van Vliet, P., Faure, E., Norris, R.A., Farhat, B., Lefrancois, J., Moore-Morris, T., Zaffran, S., Faustino, R.S., et al.(2018). A human cell model of cardiac pathophysiological valvulogenesis . bioRxiv.

BOOK

Chung, S., Dzeja, P.P., Faustino, R.S., Terzic, A.(2008). Developmental restructuring of the creatine kinase system integrates mitochondrial energetics with stem cell cardiogenesis . Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1147. p. 254-263.

Faustino, R.S., Czubryt, M.P., Pierce, G.N.(2002). Determining influence of oxidants on nuclear transport using digitonin-permeabilized cell assay . Methods in Enzymology. 352. p. 123-134.