YIXIN CHEN
**** ****** **** ****, *********, MN**126
ab9z6e@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE: To obtain a Clinical Research position
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Clinical research assistant, MRI Pathways 04/2011-present
. Develop the method for measuring the MRI figure using the Image gel
software.
. Analyze the relation of the deterioration of lumbar vertebrae discs
with the person's age, working experience, injury history.
. Analyze and calculate the ratio of adipose tissue in abdominal
region to find an accurate method to relate fatty tissue's effect
on health.
. Set up a small relational database using Microsoft Access to manage
patients' information.
Research associate, University of Minnesota. 09/2000-06/2013.
. Document daily works, input and maintain protocols, stocks,
plasmids information use File Marker, Excel, or Word.
. Analyze journal and on-line information to find the eligibility of
projects, discuss with colleagues and report to supervisor that
reduce the candidate genes from 15 to 5 in the project those genes
initiate hepatocytes dedifferentiation.
. Found the solution to improve lower transfection efficience of
primary cells by looking the experiment record, colleagues' comment
and literature search.
. Evaluated the gene expression profile using statistic analysis to
screen potential subjects and obtain the most qualified subjects.
. Address any issues that could affect the accuracy of the data
collected during the experiments.
. Compile data to produce reports with tables and figures using
Excel, Pivot tables, Powerpoint for poster presentation, journal
publication, and grant application.
Volunteer, Institute of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota.
07/2011-06/2012.
. Explore methods for mapping nursing terminologies using the Omaha
System and the International Classification for Nursing Practice
(ICNP).
. Analyze standardized public health information system data (MySQL
database ) from Washington County Public Health and Environment in
Stillwater, Minnesota.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Health informatics, 2011
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bachelor of Science in Biology, 1986
Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
RELATED TECHNICAL SKILLS
MatLab, R programming language, spreadsheet, Microsoft PowerPoint, Word,
Access, Excel, MySQL database, Online Database Searching, Computational
Analysis of Nucleic Acid Sequence, Crystal Report
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Japanese, Mandarin