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Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences | Skilled Researcher in Drug Discovery | Passionate Advocate for Scientific Communication

Profile Summary

🔬 Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences | 🧬 Expert Science & Medical Writer | ✍️ Published in top scientific journals I'm Dr. Samantha Ottavi, a professional medical writer with 8+ years of research experience and a strong publication record in top journals. I offer: ✅ Manuscript writing & editing ✅ Grant writing & review ✅ Literature reviews & summaries ✅ Slide decks & posters ✅ Educational/scientific content for all audiences Tools: AMA style, Biorender, Adobe Illustrator, EndNote, GraphPad Prism, and more. I deliver polished, publication-ready content with scientific accuracy and editorial precision. Let’s bring your research to life!

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Drug Discovery
• ☆ High Throughput Screening (HTS)
• ☆ Drug Target Identification
• ☆ Hit-to-Lead & Lead Optimization
• ☆ Phenotypic Assays
• ☆ High Content Screening/Imaging
• ☆ Medicinal Chemistry
• ☆ Drug Design
• ☆ Combinatorial Chemistry
• ☆ Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) Studies
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Small Molecule Drug Development
• ☆ Pulmonology/Respiratory Disease
• ☆ Tuberculosis

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, Technical Writing, Copywriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Research fellow

West Virginia University

September 2023 - Present

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow (Chemistry)

West Virginia University

September 2023 - Present

Graduate Student (Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

August 2018 - August 2023

Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

August 2018 - August 2023

Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry)

Rider University

September 2014 - May 2018

B.S., Biochemistry

Rider University

August 2014 - May 2018

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Samantha Ottavi, Amrita Singh, Inna Krieger, Kyle Planck, Andrew Perkowski, Takushi Kaneko, Andrew M. Davis, Christine Suh, David Zhang, Laurent Goullieux, et al. (2024). Redirecting raltitrexed from cancer cell thymidylate synthase to Mycobacterium tuberculosis phosphopantetheinyl transferase . Science Advances.

Samantha Ottavi, Kelin Li, Jackson G. Cacioppo, Andrew J. Perkowski, Remya Ramesh, Ben S. Gold, Yan Ling, Julia Roberts, Amrita Singh, David Zhang, et al. (2023). Mycobacterium tuberculosis PptT Inhibitors Based on Heterocyclic Replacements of Amidinoureas . ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Samantha Ottavi and Sarah M. Scarry and John Mosior and Yan Ling and Julia Roberts and Amrita Singh and David Zhang and Laurent Goullieux and Christine Roubert and Eric Bacqu{\'{e}} and H. Rachel Lagiakos and Jeremie Vendome and Francesca Moraca and Kelin Li and Andrew J. Perkowski and Remya Ramesh and Matthew M. Bowler and William Tracy and Victoria A. Feher and James C. Sacchettini and Ben S. Gold and Carl F. Nathan and Jeffrey Aub{\'{e}}(2022). In Vitro and In Vivo Inhibition of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase PptT by Amidinoureas . Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65. (3). p. 1996--2022. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Isabelle A. Engelberg and Jiuyang Liu and Jacqueline L. Norris-Drouin and Stephanie H. Cholensky and Samantha A. Ottavi and Stephen V. Frye and Tatiana G. Kutateladze and Lindsey I. James(2021). Discovery of an H3K36me3-Derived Peptidomimetic Ligand with Enhanced Affinity for Plant Homeodomain Finger Protein 1 (PHF1) . Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

DISSERTATION THESIS

Samantha Ottavi (2023). Efforts Toward the Discovery and Development of Novel Tuberculosis Therapeutics .