Experimental skills

• Microfluidics

• Bioassay development

• Photolithography

• Cell Culture

• GLP and GMP

• FISH based assay

• Droplet PCR

Software skills

• Data analysis

• Designing tools: Adobe

illustrator, Auto CAD,

• CAM-350, Solid works.

• LaTeX, Origin, R

• COMSOL Multiphysics.

• Microsoft Office

Dr Aparna Srivastav

Ph.D. in Biophysics Data Analyst Diagnostics & Microfluidics expert Contact: +852-****-**** adinqo@r.postjobfree.com Open to relocate

Summary

• A biophysicist with 8+ years of experience of developing cell-based bioassays and passive cell separation methodology using microfluidic and cell culture techniques resulted in 6+ publications and contribution in gaining lab funding of

£500,000

• An interdisciplinary researcher and entrepreneur developed a cell-toxicity device prototype based on the current pharma industry needs and gained customer traction of more than 10+viable industry connections under a VC backed cohort.

• Proven communication and leadership skills as demonstrated by mentoring 4 junior scientists to develop acoustic- based droplet PCR technique, resulting in timely submission of dissertations and 4+ poster presentations in the conferences in the same year.

Skills

Professional Experiences

Product Transfer Lead Gained as a Senior Scientist 03/2020 – 10/2020 Gense technologies Ltd, Hong Kong (A start-up for medical devices)

• Worked as product transfer lead by identifying potential use of lung imaging devices in COVID -situation and established pre-clinical collaborations to collect statistical data.

• Good at paying thorough attention to detail evidenced by identifying disease specifications in the vital organs (Lungs, Liver, heart), presented concise information to train the entire team and identified key biomarker to improve detection efficacy.

• Wrote funding applications, experimental design, data analysis, concisely presented data and established standard operating procedures (SOP) of medical devices.

Entrepreneur First cohort, Hong Kong 07/2019 – 03/2020 Entrepreneur First Ltd, (deep tech incubation program)

• Identified a viable business idea by validated the hypothesis through reaching 300+ contacts within 3 months of VC- cohort in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

• Commercial acumen demonstrated by rigorous business and market analysis of the organ-on-chip product and its market size. Initiated, convinced through the business plan and product prototype and established 5 potential customer traction resulted in gaining letters of intent for future collaborations.

• Entrepreneurial mindset as evidenced by establishing a start-up team, quickly determined customer need, accurately identified product specifications, analysed financial viability and managed potential business traction. Senior scientist Project manager 04/2017 – 07/2019 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Excellent planning and organisational skills evidenced by planning road maps of more than three parallel projects from conceptualisation, experimental designing, troubleshooting and collecting the data in developing label-free droplet- based cell separation methods and efficiently organised monthly resources to execute the plan promptly. Personal skills

• Strong communication skills

• Organisational skills

• Presentational skills

• Proficient at time management

• Problem-solving skills

• Language: Hindi, English (fluent);

French, Marathi (basic)

• Experience managing a whole laboratory as an assistant laboratory manager including mentoring junior researchers, interns and visiting scientists.

• Contributed to writing institute’s internal and external funding application in developing commercial cell sorting product.

• Excellent communication skills demonstrated by establishing collaboration with the clinicians, engineers and the biologists to develop and implement experimental trials to improve detection of cancer cells, resulting in the submission of a technology grant application of worth more than £100,000. Lab safety manager Research Associate 10/2014 – 04/2017 The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

• Strong initiative-taking ability as evidenced by the installation of a complete functional laboratory from scratch, establishing the COSHH, routine performing GLP or GMP studies and supporting laboratory staff, interns and external partners.

• Experience installing BSL2 laboratory and managing everyday operation, including risk assessment and biosafety auditing.

• Developed a new methodology to build and optimised microfluidic coupled inter-digital transducer (IDT) sensor devices for blood diagnostics, bio-analytics such as cell-based assay, ELISA and other PCR related detection tools.

• Excellent collaboration skills demonstrated by establishing 2+ cross-functional groups projects resulted in 2 research travel grants, one microfluidic product transfer contributed to improving the manufacturing of microarray-based biochip devices in mass production.

Researcher/ Project leader 09/2012 – 02/2014

Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Developed assay prototype and troubleshoot experiments to investigate cancer metastasis process on a fluidic cytometry chip.

• Initiated to design novel microfluidics devices using CAD, created master mould by photolithography and functional fluidic devices using soft lithography to investigate on-chip metastatic.

• Good standard of written and spoken English as demonstrated by preparing documents relating to investigations, SOP, technical reports, protocols, manuscript preparation and weekly presentation to update the group. Academic qualification

Ph.D. in Biophysics, University Université Grenoble Alpes, France. 09/2008 – 01/2012 MSc.in Physics (First class), University of Mumbai, India. 07/2004 – 07/2006 BSc in Physics (First Class), University of Mumbai, India. 06 /2001 – 05/2004 Grants and Research Fellowships

• Principal’s Early Career Mobility Fund, Award from University of Glasgow. 10/2016 – 05/2017

• Principal’s Early Career Mobility Fund, Award from University of Glasgow. 10/2014 – 05/2015

• Bourses de docteur ingénieur (BDI) French national PhD fellowship, by CNRS. 10/2008 – 01/2012

• Junior Researcher fellowship awarded by University of Mumbai 05/2006 – 07/2007 Interests and hobbies

• Every year organise career counselling for the teenage students (age group of 12-19 yrs.) with the coordination of Shri Ram High School, various firms and Education Council of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India.

• Attend and participate in various forms of meditations (mindfulness, Sahaj-yoga)

• Active reader in the field of business, biographies, skill enhancement and friction.

• Participate and volunteer in raising fund for paediatric cancer patients.

• Love exploring new methods of cooking to promote vegetarianism and veganism.

• Love hiking from Scottish Loch Lomond, the UK to Markha Valley, Ladakh, India.

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