BRANDON CHU ac69ve@r.postjobfree.com 301-***-****

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EDUCATION

University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering, College Park

Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering

GPA: 3.53/4.00

College Park Scholars

Life Sciences

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

SKILLS

Programming/CAD Skills: Autodesk Inventor, CREO, Java, Python, TI-BASIC, Racket, C Programming Language, Matlab, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SolidWorks Laboratory Skills: Gibson Assembly, Gel Electrophoresis, Gel Imaging, PCR, DNA Extraction, Antibody Purification, Assay Analysis, Western Blotting

WORK EXPERIENCE

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering), Washington, DC NREIP Intern

June 2017 to Aug. 2017

National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute), Bethesda, MD Summer Intern

June 2016 to Aug. 2016

• Used immunostaining and immunoblotting techniques to research the role of polo-box domains and how they interact with human tumors and contribute to tumorigenesis

• Purified antibodies using purification columns

• Designed experiment to characterize the carbon source preference of Marinobacter sp. CP1

• Used Gibson assembly and electroporation to confer antibiotic resistance to modified E. coli strains

• Co-Authored "Development of a genetic system for Marinobacter atlanticus CP1 (sp. nov.), a wax ester producing strain isolated from an autotrophic biocathode"

National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute), Bethesda, MD Summer Intern

June 2015 to Aug. 2015

• Experimented and researched whether adenoviral vectors containing shRNA contribute to the cancer stem cell pluripotency factor NANOGP8 in preventing the emergence of drug resistant variants in colorectal cancer

• Presented research at NIH poster day to various principal investigators ACADEMIC AWARDS

Bio-engineering Senior Medical Device Fabrication Capstone Winner: 2nd Place University of Maryland

• Participated in a major-wide competition where the most feasible and accomplished project was selected

• Awarded 2nd best project across all bio-engineering majors

• Underwent the product development life cycle in order to create a stethoscope and ultrasound combination device

• Created preliminary designs through computer aided design (CREO)

• Fabricated device prototype through 3D printing

• Employed post process data analysis to combine ultrasound and stethoscope datatypes through Python and Matlab

• Presented our project in front of the entire Bioengineering department and other members of the Biotech industry A. James Clark School of Engineering Dean's List

• Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering), Washington, DC NREIP Intern June 2018 to Aug. 2018

• Researched and reviewed the role of BAR domain proteins in producing membrane extensions using Gibson assembly cloning

• Characterized transcription factors of BAR domain protein A in order to allow the promoter region to be used as a switch in synthetic biology applications

BIOE457: Biomedical Electronics

BIOE489A: Python

BIOE437: Computer Aided Design

BIOE232: Bioengineering Thermodynamics

BIOE340: Modeling Physiological Systems

BIOE453: Biomaterials

BIOE372: Biostatistics

BIOE404: Biomechanics

BIOE331: Biofluids

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