Project Management

Yevgeniy Grigoryev, PhD

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New York, New York 10044

Cell 718-***-****

Email:***********@*****.***

LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/grigoryevy

Objective

To leverage my experience as a researcher and a scientific writer and editor to engage and promote communication within the scientific and literary communities.

Qualifications

A skilled and enthusiastic scientist with experience in scientific writing and editing, as well as innovative technologies and cutting-edge research, with a proven ability to formulate, execute and achieve project goals and present novel data to cross-disciplinary audiences.

Skills

Extensive scientific writing and editorial experience

Expertise in analyzing large data sets and stratifying data

Excellent writing and verbal communication skills: ability to communicate complex technical ideas in simple and accessible terms to audiences of varied expertise and disciplines

Ability to acknowledge many differing views of reality and support a position or viewpoint with argumentation and logic

Ability to conceive and design complex studies and projects and follow them through to completion

Strong project management skills: ability to formulate, execute and achieve complex project goals, prioritize daily procedures, problem-solve, and troubleshoot

Strong leadership skills through teaching and instructing

Education

Ph.D. Functional Genomics and Immunology, 2011

Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.

B.A. Biochemistry, 2005

Department of Chemistry, City University of New York Hunter College, New York, New York.

First inaugural class of the CUNY honors program, graduated magna cum laude, GPA: 3.96

Languages: Bilingual proficiency in English and Russian

Professional Experience

Columnist and creator of the “PhD tales from the couch” column at Benchfly, April 2012 - Present

Editor at American Journal Experts, April 2012 – Present

Editor of pre-submission scientific manuscripts from ESL authors.

Scientific Writer at BitesizeBio, July 2011 – Present

Contributing author of periodic technical and informational articles for biologists.

Research Experience

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 01/2012 – Present.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Molecular and Experimental Medicine Department, the Scripps Research Institute, 08/2011-12/2011.

- Implemented gene therapy approaches to obtain stably modified Human T cell lines.

PhD candidate, Molecular and Experimental Medicine Department, the Scripps Research Institute, 08/2006 – 08/2011.

- Optimized novel experimental methods and integrated them into routine use in the lab.

- Successfully implemented new strategies to address transfection of primary human T-lymphocytes.

- Designed, carried out and analyzed experiments that resulted in three first-author publications in competitive peer-reviewed journals.

- Presented novel scientific findings at three International Keystone Symposia conferences.

- Generated data for portions of an NIH RO1 grant that secured $1.25 million funding for the lab.

- Initiated scientific collaborations with Life Technologies, Jaden BioSciences Inc, and Biotique, Inc to implement their technologies for the routine use in the lab.

Undergraduate research assistant, Chemistry Department, City University of New York

Hunter College, 09/2002 – 05/2005.

Non-Research Experience

Krav Maga instructor at the Krav Maga Institute NYC, 03/2012 – Present

Instructing students in self-defense principles, applications, and techniques.

Publications

Peer-reviewed

1. Grigoryev YA, Kurian SM, Hart GT, Nakorchevsky AA, Chen C, Campbell D, Head SR, Yates JR 3rd, and Salomon DR. “microRNA regulation of molecular networks mapped by global microRNA, mRNA, and protein expression in activated T-lymphocytes”. J Immunol. 2011 Sep 1;187(5):2233-43. Epub 2011 Jul 25.

2. Grigoryev YA, Kurian SM, Avnur Z, Borie D, Deng J, Campbell D, Sung J, Nikolcheva T, Quinn A, Schulman H, Peng SL, Schaffer R, Fisher J, Mondala T, Head S, Flechner SM, Kantor AB, Marsh C, Salomon DR. (2010). Deconvoluting Post-Transplant Immunity: Cell Subset-Specific Mapping Reveals Pathways for Activation and Expansion of Memory T, Monocytes and B Cells. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13358. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013358

3. Grigoryev YA, Kurian SM, Nakorchevskiy AA, Burke JP, Campbell D, Head SR, Deng J, Kantor AB, Yates JR 3rd, Salomon DR. (2009). Genome-Wide Analysis of Immune Activation in Human T and B Cells Reveals Distinct Classes of Alternatively Spliced Genes. PLoS ONE 4(11): e7906. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007906

4. Kurian SM, Grigoryev YA, Head SR, Campbell D, Mondala T, Salomon D.R. (2007). Applying genomics to organ transplantation medicine in both discovery and validation of biomarkers. Int Immunopharmacol. 2007 Dec 20; 7 (14): 1948-60. Epub 2007 Aug 9.

5. Kawamura A, Brekman A, Grigoryev Y, Hasson TH, Takaoka A, Wolfe S, Soll CE. (2006) Rediscovery of Natural Products using genomic tools. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2006 Jun 1;16(11):2846-9. Epub 2006 Mar 31.

General Articles

1. How Much Information is Stored in the Human Genome? (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/)

2. How To Start Your PhD The Right Way (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-to-start-your-phd-the-right-way/ )

3. When Silence Speaks Volumes: Using RNAi to Investigate Gene Function (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/when-silence-speaks-volumes-using-rnai-to-investigate-gene-function/ )

4. Tango Therapy (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/tango-therapy/ )

5. How DNA Microarrays are Built (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-dna-microarrays-are-built/ )

6. Introduction to DNA Microarrays (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/introduction-to-dna-microarrays/)

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