AKANKSHA NAYAK

Email: ac4zg0@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 650-***-**** LinkedIn Location:San Francisco Bay Area

Experience:

●June 2015 – March 2016: Regulatory Medical Writer at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Worked on documents related to regulatory disclosures:

-Authored and peer reviewed clinical trial registry summaries (result and protocol summaries) for ClinicalTrias.gov and European Clinical Trials Database

-Performed redaction of clinical study reports.

●February 2014 – June 2015: Junior Medical Content Executive at Xrays Biocom, A medical communications division of Sorento Healthcare communications

Developed customized scientific content for pharma products and consumer care products:

-Developed medical content covering a wide range of therapeutic areas, disease management for a range of target audiences that includes –doctors, pharmacists, nurses, patients, etc.

-Developed scientific content for a variety of media like newsletters, brochures, booklets, LBLs, patient education cards, slide decks, CMEs, visual aids, AVs, healthcare websites

-Edited and proofread scientific inputs

●October 2012- April 2013: Intern at Columbia University Medical Centre (Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)

-Carried out the quantification of reactive oxygen species using dye reduction test and fluorescence techniques in N9 transformed murine microglial cells, to study the role of inflammation in microglial cell activation and thereby in Parkinson’s disease.

Education:

●2011 - 2012: MA in Biotechnology from Columbia University in the City of New

York (GPA 3.93/4.3)

Completed a review thesis titled ‘Hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer: Important molecular causes and therapies’ as a part of the Master’s degree requirements

●2010 -2011: M.Sc. - Part 1 in Biotechnology from University of Mumbai

●2007 – 2010: B.Sc. – Biotechnology from University of Mumbai with 84.5% (Stood First in the University of Mumbai in Biotechnology)

Skills

●Medical writing and content development

●Editing

●Clinical research

●Molecular biology

●Clinical Research

●Clinical Trials

●ICH-GCP

●Cell Culture

●Cellular Assays

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