Engineering Design

V eerpal Dh illo n ************@*****.***

**** ****** ****** **, *** C1, Philadelphia, PA-19104 Phone: 215-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a full-time or intern position in the field of biomedical engineering & biotechnology

EDUCATION

Drexel University Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering September 2008- June, 2011

Concentration: Tissue Engineering CGPA: 3.8/4.0, Magna Cum Laude Honor

Related Coursework

Cells and Genetics; Human Physiology I, II ;Biochemistry,Molecular Biology ; Tissue Engineering I, II, III ;

Biomaterials I, II ; Biomedical Statistics ; Transport phenomena in Living systems ; Senior Design I,II, III

EXPERIENCE

Drexel College of Medicine @ Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center Doylestown, PA

Research Assistant October 2009-March 2010

Part-time Research Assistant April 2010- September, 2010

Assisted in the development of the urine screening test for liver cancer.

Conducted different mutation assays like p53 mutation assay for liver cancer detection.

Isolated and quantified DNA from urine, serum and HCC tissue samples by qPCR.

Developed protocol and experimented for site-direct mutagenesis and cloning.

Organized proper storage of ingredients and test samples and maintained laboratory data.

Nestle India, Ltd. Moga, India

Intern March2006- June, 2006

Collaborated with internal and external experts in developing and defining business driven nutrition

related research strategy for India and developed solutions for nutritional deficiencies in India.

Managed internal and external projects with contract research institutions and universities in India.

LABORATORY AND COMPUTER SKILLS

Laboratory: Cell culture ; Manual and Real-Time PCR using SYBR Green and Taqman ; Gel electrophoresis ;

DNA isolation, purification and amplification techniques ; Cloning by PCR and restriction digestion and ligation ;

Primer Designing; Mechanical Testing of bone and tissues ;ECG and EMG readings; Mini-prep Kits.

Computer: MATLAB ; Microsoft Office – Excel, Word and PowerPoint ; LabView ; Blast; Maple

ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS

Senior Design, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA

Biologically Inspired Robotic Microswimmers September, 2010 – June, 2011

Worked in a group of five members to design and develop actively mobile microswimmers using the

hydrodynamics of S. typhimurium.

Effectively isolated flagella from cell bodies and successfully polymerized flagella upto 12µm long.

Successfully micro-fabricated the microswimmer with polystyrene bead, magnetic nanoparticles, and flagella

using bioconjugation process.

Designed LabView program to control its motion and carried simulations using COMSOL .

Junior Design, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA

Delivery Patch for Nitric Oxide March, 2010 – June, 2010

Worked in a group of four members to develop a design for the transdermal patch for delivery of nitric oxide .

Developed a mathematical model for diffusion controlled mechanism for effectiveness of 7 days.

Designed a multi-layered PLGA patch with different concentration of monomers to control diffusion.

AWARDS, HONORS AND PUBLICATIONS

Research Day Award at Drexel University April, 2010

Dean’s Scholarship; Dean’s List Drexel University Fall, 2008-June,2011

Among the Top ten poster presentation at NEBEC Conference April, 2011

Selena Y. Lin, Veerpal Dhillon, Surbhi Jain, Ting-Tsung Chang, Chi-Tan Hu, Yih-Jyh Lin, Shun-Hua Chen, Kung-Chao

Chang, Wei Song, Lixin Yu, Timothy M. Block, and Ying -Hsiu Su, “A Locked Nucleic Acid Clamp-Mediated Polymerase Chain

Reaction Assay for Detection of a P53 Codon 249 Hotspot Mutation in Urine ”, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, Accepted,

In press.

Jules Scogna, John Olkowski, Naera Fatema, Padmini Parameswaran and Veerpal Dhillon, “Biologically Inspired Robotic

Microswimmers”, 2011 NEBEC Conference, RPI; Troy, NY 2011; P1_37.

Veerpal Dhillon, Benjamin Song, Selena Lin, Timothy M. Block and Ying-Hsiu Su, “Evidence that Transrenal DNA is derived

from apoptotic cells”,Poster Presenter, Drexel Univ Research Day, Philadelphia, 2010(1st place for poster competition).

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