ADITI IYER

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EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

M.S. Biotechnology - Bioprocess Engineering June 2013

GPA: 3.69/4.00

Courses: Bioprocess Engineering, Bioseparations, Kinetics & Reactor Design, Fluid & Mass Transport, Cell-Material

Interactions, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Immunology, Managerial Challenges in Pharma and Biotech Industries

Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, Dubai Campus, UAE

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Biotechnology August 2011

CGPA: 8.24/10.00

Courses: Bioprocess Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Thermodynamics, Electrical Science, Statistics, Biochemistry, Cell

Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Genetic Engineering Techniques, Proteomics, Computer Programming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Associate, Maroon Biotech Corp, Chicago Dec 2013 - Present

• Accountable for purification of polymers, setting-up of cell culture experiments to test therapeutic effect of

polymers and mobilizing funds for research projects.

• Responsible for sales activities, business development projects and facilitating FDA approval process.

• Clinical Coordinator for the Chicago Electrical Trauma Research Institute, an affiliated non-profit organization.

Engineer, Therapeutic Proteins International, Chicago Sep - Nov 2013

• Involved in the design and development of single-use bioreactors for production of biosimilars.

• Scale-up of bioreactors for fermentation of mammalian and bacterial cell cultures.

Research Intern, InBios International, Inc, Seattle Jan - Sep 2013

• Designed and troubleshot ELISA based lateral flow immunoassays for tropical diseases, which involved taking

test from design and development stage to final manufacturing.

• Scale-up of normal and tangential flow filtration methods for large-scale concentration of virus like particles.

• Optimized purification of proteins using ion-exchange chromatography to improve immunoassay sensitivity.

Intern, Aptec Distribution, Dubai Aug 2010 - Jan 2011

• Developed a selling story for telemarketing and integrated feedback from customer visits to identify target market

Intern, Damas LLC, Dubai May - July 2009

• Designed promotional mailers and organized promotional events to generate awareness, trials and repurchase.

Intern, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi June-July 2008

• Utilized various homology modelling, sequence alignment (BLAST, ClustalW) and secondary structure

prediction software (HNN, GOR, NNPredict) on a Bioinformatics project for in silico protein structure prediction.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University Dec 2011- Dec 2012

• Correlated metabolic efficiency to flow heterogeneity in biofilms grown in microfluidic and planar flow cells.

• Reengineered flow cell system and related cell metabolism to biofilm structure using confocal microscopy.

• Showed positive effect of flow heterogeneity on carbon and oxygen metabolic efficiency of biofilms.

Senior Year Thesis Project, Birla Institute of Technology and Science- Pilani, Dubai Feb- Aug 2011

• Completed a research project on the “Qualitative and quantitative analysis of fungal degradation of pesticide”

• Isolated hydrocarbon-degrading fungi belonging to genus Aspergillus from soil samples.

• Quantified degradation of pesticide using UV/Vis Spectroscopy, BOD test, HPLC and Gas Chromatography.

LABORATORY SKILLS:

• Bacterial & Mammalian Bioreactor, Design of Experiments, Mammalian cell culture techniques

• Chromatography: Gel Permeation, HPLC, Ion-exchange, Reverse-phase, Gas Liquid, Affinity, AKTA system

• Tangential Flow Filtration, Ultra/Microfiltration, Centrifugation, Lyophilization, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting

• UV/IR Spectroscopy, ELISA, BCA/Bradford Assay, TOC Analyser, Calorimetry, Antibody Conjugation, PCR

• Molecular Cloning, DNA/RNA Isolation, Restriction Analysis, RT/QPCR

COMPUTER SKILLS: SuperPro Designer, C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, MATLAB, AutoCAD, MS Office

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