Andrew King 415-***-**** ac7xdj@r.postjobfree.com
Summary: Recently graduated with master’s in Nanoengineering and looking for biopharma or medical device development opportunities in the Bay Area.
Research Experience
Research Assistant Professor Nathan Gianneschi’s Biochemistry Lab University of California, San Diego September 2015 – June 2016; September 2016 – June 2017 Project: Fabricating liquid cell TEM chips using clean room microfabrication techniques to investigate the microtubule- Taxol interaction
• Fabricated patterned liquid cell TEM chips using PECVD, photolithography, reactive ion etching, and wet etching
• Helped set up the automated sciTEM sample deposition process
• Synthesized microtubules for experimentation
Project: Heat sensitive optical sensors using DNA-gold nanoparticle conjugates.
• Functionalized gold nanoparticles with DNA
• Performed thermal UV-vis spectroscopy to characterize the heat sensitive absorbance
• Prepared samples for dry state and liquid cell TEM Research Intern Professor Raymond Schiffelers Nanomedicine Lab University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands June 2016 – August 2016 Project: Developing a sensitive biosensor for noninvasive cancer diagnosis using extracellular vesicles
• Synthesized mimicked extracellular vesicles to test biosensor
• Engineered a gold nanoparticle conjugated with streptavidin
• Started two cell lines (EGFR positive and negative), performed cell cultures and extrusions
• Demonstrated selectivity of the biosensor with respect to EGFR Education
University of California, San Diego
Master of Science, Nanoengineering September 2017 – June 2018 GPA 3.86
Notable Projects
• Presented specific aims for gold shell NiO nanoparticles for targeted magnetic hyperthermia
• Researched and presented paper on micromotors for improved biosensing
• Developed a mock proposal to use a national lab facility, voted top 6 Bachelor of Science, Nanoengineering September 2012 – June 2017 Upper Division GPA 3.78
Notable Projects
• Synthesized and investigated novel hole transport layer materials for use in silicon solar cells
• Investigated and presented conversion chemistry-based cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. Relevant Skills
Bioengineering, Cell Biology, and Optical Biosensors
• Bioconjugation of gold nanoparticles
• UV-vis spectroscopy, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA), fluorescence microscopy
• Cell cultures and extrusion
Microfluidics, Micro/Nanofabrication, Photolithography, Cleanroom fabrication
• Oxford PECVD, Oxford P80 RIE, KA6 Mask Aligner
• Anisotropic KOH wet etch
Miscellaneous
• Installing, programming, and troubleshooting equipment.
• TEM sample prep (dry, cryo, and liquid cell)
• MATLAB and Microsoft Excel