Naira V. Margaryan

Wood Dale, IL *****

adxknx@r.postjobfree.com

224-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/naira-margaryan-733298193/

A goal-driven, fast learning professional with more than 30 years of experience in histopathology, laboratory oncological research, team leadership, and training of technicians in histology

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Establishing a Research Histology laboratory

• Managing histology laboratory operation and a one piece workflow

• Identifying and resolving issues that may impact turnaround time, test performance and results

• Quality Control of sections, staining and trim-notes

• Validating pending cases

• Evaluating and operating laboratory equipment

• Histopathology: tissue grossing with complex dissection, processing, embedding in paraffin, sectioning, routine, and special staining, immunohistochemistry (IHC)

• Immunohistochemically evaluating of onco markers

• Making quality digital images for publication • Testing novel drugs

• Working with in vitro and in vivo animal models of tumor invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis • Establishing xenografts in immunocompromised animal models of human cancer

• Cell culture

• ELISA

• MS Excel, Photoshop, NovoPath, LYNXX

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Lab Lead Sr. (02/2020 – 05/2023) / Acting supervisor and Clinical Laboratory Instructor (10/2022 – 05/2023) Department of Histopathology, IDEXX Laboratories, Elmhurst, IL

• Assigning daily work to the team of 19 technicians, including collecting, grossing, processing, embedding, sectioning, and conducting routine and special stain for histopathological tests

• Training and coaching technicians in various histology and grossing skills, utilizing bone-saw, understanding SOP (standard operational procedure)

• Effectively resolving issues with samples and tissue processing to reduced turnaround time

• Decreasing the number of reruns by avoiding recurring errors

Director of Research Histology Service, Senior Research Scientist (9/2016 -2/2020) – Department of Biochemistry, West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown, WV

• Worked closely with scientists to find the right histological approach to their problems

• Tested novel humanized targeted antibody-based therapy (embryonic morphogen stem cell marker, Nodal, along with its combination of well-established standard-of-care therapy) to treat human melanoma and breast cancer in experimental animal models (nude mice)

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor (09/2016 - 9/2017) – Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV

• Trained students in basic histology and in concept of IHC

Director of Research Histology Core (10/2009 - 9/2016) – Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Chicago, IL

* Established and operated Research Histology Core

Research Scientist (4/2004 - 09/2016) – Department of Cancer Biology & Epigenomics, Children's Memorial Research Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• Designed and executed experiments with establishment of xenografts (nude mice) that use human cancer cell lines (melanoma, breast and prostate cancer)

• Analyzed experimental data and generated statistical report

• Managed lab inventory

Postdoctoral Fellow (3/2001- 4/2004) – Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

• Worked with human cell culture including melanoma, breast cancer and prostate cancer • Molecular biology techniques: RNA and DNA isolation

• Provided support to lead scientists

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Histology (1997) – L.A.Orbeli Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

DVM – Doctor Veterinary Medicine (Diploma with Honors) (1986) – Yerevan Zootechnical Veterinary Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

PUBLICATIONS:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Margaryan+N

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