Xiao Sun
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EDUCATION
Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
• Master of Science in Industrial Pharmaceutics, GPA: 3.7/4.0
• Expected Date of Graduation: May 2016
Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy
• Date of Graduation: July 2014
EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant at Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy, Long Island University June 2015
• Project operator instructed by Dr. Rutesh Dave (Associate Professor in Faculty of Pharmaceutics)
• Manufactured Ibuprofen tablets using the wet granulation process
• Mastered techniques for testing hardness, thickness, friability, and excipient characteristics of tablets
• Completed an in vitro study of drug release by testing dissolution and analyzing the drug release mechanism Intern at Anhui Shangrui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd July 2013- Sept 2013
• Project designer and operator instructed by Geng Li (Senior Formulation Scientist)
• Independently completed the dosage form design and preformulation of a Gliclazide sustained released tablet
• Used an orthogonal testing method to select pharmaceutical polymers for compressing tablets
• Conducted an in vitro study of the drug’s release mechanism and created a dissolution profile Research Assistant at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Faculty of pharmaceutics July 2012- June 2014
• Project designer and operator instructed by Siling Wang (Professor in Faculty of Pharmaceutics)
• Designed each film in a multi-layer based dosage form, using Ibuprofen as the model drug
• Formulated sustained released films, fast disintegration films and emulsion films
• Created films by casting polymer solution and hot melting extrusion
• Created a dissolution profile using a flow-through cell apparatus PROJECTS
Preparation of nanocomposite silica by sol-gel method (Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award winner)
• Prepared nanocomposite silica using the sol- gel method and tested its physical and chemical properties
• Measured surface area, pore size, and drug release in vitro Development of a Pre-clinical Suspension Delivery System for Drospirenone
• Learned the Target Product Profile (QTPP), Design of Experiments (DOE), and pre-clinical report documentation formats
PUBLICATIONS
“Design, Characterization, and In vitro Cellular Inhibition and Uptake of Optimized Genistein-loaded NLC for the Prevention of Posterior Capsular Opacification Using Response Surface Methodology ” (International Journal of Pharmaceutics 454 (2013) 354–366), the fifth author, available online 19 July 2013 SKILLS
• Fluent and literate in Chinese and Japanese
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Origin and SPSS
• Proficient in UV-2000, HPLC, Dissolution Apparatus, Surface area and pore size analyzer and compressing tablets