Vijay Sekaran

Self-motivated, highly productive biochemist with a Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences, postdoctoral experience and over 10 years performing research in an academic setting as well as 5.5 years working in industry in multiple roles. Excels at assay and product development, including designing and manipulating molecular biology studies, investigating and optimizing product performance, and rigorous statistical analyses, as well as customer-facing interactions, including hospital implementation, sales support, and customer training. Passionate about developing tools and technologies to solve real-world biomedical problems and enhance human health. Business and Technical Skills: Project management, change management and design control, quality and regulatory compliance, financial budgeting and purchasing, training and mentoring, customer and technical support, product design and development, design transfer, algorithm development, performance testing for CE Mark and FDA submissions, reagent manufacturing and stability, reagent formulation under GMP, clinical study implementation, statistical analysis, project scoping Lab Skills: Sequencing library prep (10x Genomics and TST170/TSO500); PCR, RT-PCR, and qPCR; LIMs, FreezerWorks and LabMatrix; hemostasis and coagulation testing; cell culture and sterile technique; stable and transient transfections; chromatin immunoprecipitation; Western and Northern blotting; cloning and mutagenesis; in vitro RNA synthesis and purification; protein expression and purification; RNA footprinting; functional and phenotypic assays; and gel electrophoresis