Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

We're thrilled to announce that Intellex has acquired Expert by Big Village, effective March 22, 2024. This strategic move enhances our capabilities and strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional solutions to our customers.

Stay tuned for more updates on how this acquisition will benefit our clients and experts.

For inquiries or more information, please contact us at info@intellex.com.

×

Expert Details

Biomedical Sciences: Ageing Disorders, Cancer, Neurological Disorders, Molecular Cardiology, and Diabetes

ID: 738810 Florida, USA

Request Expert

Expert is a scientist trained under a Nobel Laureate Ph.D. at UCSF. She is also an entrepreneur with her own biotech start-up.

Expert has engaged with Tegus as a Key Opinion Leader in the areas of cancer, neurobiology and cardiology for six months.

Expert's specialized scientific skills include RNA biology, molecular biology, stem-cell biology, cell biology, cancer biology, immunology, chromatin biology, and cardiac biology.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2003 Degree: Ph.D Subject: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Institution: University of California, San Diego

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2018 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Chief Scientific Officer Department: R&D
Responsibilities:
RNA Enabling Theranostics -- the integration of therapeutics and diagnostics.

- Big data analysis to identify common molecules in complex diseases
- Validation of "unifying" small RNAs in disease
- Optimization of High-throughput platform to identify disease-enriched proteins for theranostics

Expert's work at her bioscientific firm includes:

- In silico sequence analysis to identify highly penetrant “unifying” small RNAs as multi-target protein modulators in diseases (Cancer, T-cell function, Alzheimer’s, Autism)
- Small RNAs as regulators of theranostics proteins including enzymes, cell-surface proteins and secreted proteins
- “Unifying’ small RNAs and their interactomes as theranostics moieties
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2019 to 2020 Employer: University of South Florida Title: General Faculty Department: Heart Institute
Responsibilities:
Human iPS Modeling of Cardiomyopathies
- iPS reprogramming from patient blood
- Accelerated in vitro differentiation of human patient iPS to beating cardiomyocytes for cardiomyopathy disease-in-a-dish modeling (within weeks as opposed to decades in vivo)
- Small RNA focused molecular mechanisms for cardiomyopathies and heart failure
- Crosstalk between cardiac populations in cardiomyopathy progression
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2017 to 2018 Employer: University of South Florida Title: Adjunct Faculty Department: Heart Institute
Responsibilities:
RNA Delivery using Nanoparticles and Exosomes
- Tumor Exosomes for Cardiac Regeneration
- Development of cationic nanoparticles for RNA delivery
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2016 to 2017 Employer: University of South Florida Title: Adjunct Faculty Department: Molecular Medicine
Responsibilities:
RNA Modifications and Stemness in Cancer
- Utilizing sphere assays and 3D tumoroid models to study contribution of small RNAs and RNA modifications to cancer stemness
- Role of small RNAs in promoting cancer drug resistance and stemness
- Drug screening for cancer stemness using sphere formation assays
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2012 to 2014 Employer: University of California, San Francisco Title: Associate Specialist Department: Biochemistry and Biophysics
Responsibilities:
Determination of Novel Functions for Non-Canonical small RNA's
- Expert identified small RNA-protein interactions reflecting novel roles for small RNAs in transcriptional outcomes
- Expert elucidated small RNA-RNA interactions as a putative mechanism for regulation of subcellular mRNA localization and downstream protein translation
- Expert elucidated mechanisms by which telomerase dependent small RNAs could modulate proliferation/differentiation, chromatin states, drug resistance and OXPHOS
- Expert identified small RNA-Protein interactions with therapeutic implications for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and chromatin imprinting

Career Accomplishments

Professional Appointments
General Faculty (Heart Institute, University of South Florida)
Adjunct Faculty (Heart Institute, University of South Florida)
Adjunct Faculty (Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida)
Awards / Recognition
1/5 Finalists PBMI Innovation Challenge to Reduce Drug Costs
1/15 winners, Brain Race, Administered by CAI and Brain Tumor Charity, UK
Winner, VABeach Bio Challenge (Declined)
T Semi-Finalist
BioFlorida Semi-Finalist
Founder, ThNA BioSciences Inc
NSF/I-Corps Fellow, USF
Shortlisted Candidate, Pfizer-IIT Delhi Innovation and IP Program
Patent Filed (Patent No, US 12/496,481; Publication: US20100029501)
Best Trainee Speaker Presentation, Cardiovascular Research Institute Meeting, UCSF

Expert's biosciences firm has won the following awards:

Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) Brain Race
VABeach Bio Challenge (Declined)
Only Biotech Start-Up from Tampa Featured in BioFlorida
Semi-Finalist USF BEAT, 2018
I-Corps, National Science Foundation, 2017
Finalist for the Pfizer-IIT Innovation Challenge, 2016
Publications and Patents Summary
Expert has 10 publications related to cardiological health and/or RNA.

She has also filed one patent related to a microRNA target screener.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
KOL for a primary research outfit since April 2022.
Training / Seminars
Expert has been an invited speaker at numerous scientific discussions.
Vendor Selection
Expert has selected the vendors for all her laboratory research pertaining to molecular biology.
Marketing Experience
Expert markets the startup biosciences firm she runs.
Other Relevant Experience
Gladstone Outreach Program Volunteer (2008-2012)
Co-chair, Postdoctoral Association Committee (three consecutive years)

Fields of Expertise

Request Expert

Dev Tool:

Request: expert/biomedical-sciences-ageing-disorders-cancer-neurological-disorders-molecular-cardiology-and-diabetes
Matched Rewrite Rule: expert/([^/]+)(?:/([0-9]+))?/?$
Matched Rewrite Query: experts=biomedical-sciences-ageing-disorders-cancer-neurological-disorders-molecular-cardiology-and-diabetes&page=
Loaded Template: single-experts.php