Yi-Hsun (Laynie) Chen

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EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA December 2014

School of Pharmacy

Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Related courses: Drug Discovery and Design, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Drug Transport and Delivery, Principles of

Biostatistics, Data Analysis

California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA May 2012

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Cumulative GPA 3.58

WORK EXPERIENCE

Allergan, Irvine, CA Oct 2014-Current

Nonclinical Development-Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics, Intern

• Ophthalmic pharmaceuticals data extraction for pharmacokinetic study

• Use SAS to prepare study data for FDA data submission

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Aug 2014-Dec 2014

Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate Assistant

• Clinical data management in REDCap

• Data collection from clinical department

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Aug 2012-Dec 2014

Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Science, Graduate Research Assistant

• Carried out solvation calculation by using WATGEN algorithm

• Computational modeling of protein-peptide interface

California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA Jan 2011-May 2014

Math Department, Student Assistant

• Graded exams and homework assignments for calculus and statistics courses; provided feedback to students;

wrote quizzes and exam questions; recorded grades in an Excel worksheet

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Oct 2010-Nov 2010

Department of Neurology, Resource Employee

• Designed, created and managed custom databases in MS Access

• Data management

California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA Aug 2008-Dec 2011

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Research Assistant

• Collaborated with biology lab in synthesizing & formulating drugs for stem cell and Alzheimer’s research.

• Carried out organic synthesis reaction using transition metals as the catalyst

• Purified organic compounds using LC; separated compounds using GCMS; characterized chemical structure by

NMR and FTIR

California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

Tutoring Center of Math Department, Math Tutor Aug 2007-Dec 2010

• Tutored students with their math course work including Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, College Algebra, Intro

Probability + Statistics, Pre-calculus, Business Calculus, Calculus

USC MASTER THESIS RESEARCH

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Title: “Computer Modeling of Protein-Peptide Interface Solvation”, advisor Dr. Ian S. Haworth

The main goal of my research is able to use bioinformatic approach to discover protein-peptide interface and apply to drug

discovery with development of inhibitor.

• Computer modeling and analyzed 1638 protein-peptide interface and used a solvation calculation algorithm called

WATGEN to calculate the water location

• Studied Abl-SH3 domain binding complexe-3EG1

SELECTED PUBLICATION

“A Titanium-Mediated Rearrangement of Cyclopropenylmethyl Acetates to (E)-Halodienes” Org. Biomol.

Chem., 2011, 9, 3359.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Computer: PC and Mac platforms, Microsoft Office, SAS in managing and analyzing data, simple linear regression

analysis, multiple linear regression analysis, hypothesis testing, one-way and two-way ANOVA table,

correlation test, modeling interaction and confounding, and model selection, MACRO programming and

graphics, SPSS in simple statistical analysis, Matlab in simple math calculation and graph, Mathematica

in basic math calculation, SAAMI in basic pharmacokinetic simulation.

Languages: Fluent English, Native Mandarin, Native Taiwanese, Basic Japanese, Korean, and Spanish

Lab Skills: GCMS, NMR, FTIR, HPLC, LC

CERTIFICATIONS

SAS

SAS Certified BASE Programmer for SAS 9 November 2014

AWARDS AND HONORS

Dean’s Honor List Spring2007-Fall2009

Golden Key International Honour Society November 2010

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