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Clinical Data, Presentations, Market Intelligence, Communication

Manager Competitive Intelligence and Medical Insights at BioNTech SE

• Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Duration: 2023-08 to Present
• Description:

Senior Associate Corporate Development and New Product Planning at Jounce Therapeutics, Inc.

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• Duration: 2022-02 to 2023-03
• Description: • Delivered strategic intelligence and competitive analyses to key stake holders across functions in clinical-stage biotech company developing immune-targeting biologics for the treatment of cancer • Synthesized primary and secondary research into comprehensive disease landscape assessments for 4 tumor types evaluated in a Phase 2 clinical trial to include: – Disease overviews, clinical benchmarks, unmet medical needs – Current treatment paradigms, competitive landscape to inform future treatment outlook – Market opportunity and forecasting across multiple indications, segments, and geographies • Identified opportunities that increase probability of technical and regulatory success for 2 Phase 2 clinical trials, and covered competitive intelligence for 7 programs • Contextualized research and presented to senior management across functions to inform go / no-go development for multiple clinical protocol amendments • Represented the New Products Team in Early Discovery Team with responsibility to deliver routinely competitive intelligence analysis and updates for new targets • Completed ad hoc requests for senior management in New Products and Business Development projects & initiatives on a broader basis with quick turn around • Surveyed and assessed immuno-oncology landscape changes and their impact on company programs providing insights and recommendations to key stakeholders and more general updates via a company-wide newsletter • Led development of customized, de novo competitive intelligence database together with director of research informatics to working beta version leading to significant time savings while increasing frequency and depth of updates • Prepared detailed medical conference itineraries, attended conferences and seminars capturing and sharing important updates with key stakeholders, expanded depth of coverage to include early-stage programs

Staff Scientist at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

• Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Duration: 2021-05 to 2022-02
• Description: • Defined research strategies to reach deliverables for multi‑institutional Cancer Research UK grant: led disease model development & target discovery for IBD and colon cancer • Supervised three direct reports of multiple levels, including Post Doc, Senior Research Assistant and Intern

Visiting PHD Student / Associate at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

• Location: Greater Boston Area
• Duration: 2016-01 to 2021-04
• Description: • Instituted and headed colon research team, and developed microfluidic in vitro model of human colon • Established primary human colon organoid bio bank from tissue through securing collaborations with clinicians • Validated three targets and drugs for non‑small cell lung cancer in collaboration with bioinformatics team • Collaborated across lab and grants, trained over 10 researchers in Organ on Chip technology and contributed to first and co‑authorship on 8 publications

Research Assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

• Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Duration: 2014-12 to 2015-08
• Description: • Discovered mechanism of beneficial effect of novel lipids on glucose homeostasis in mice • Identified GPR40 as potential target for therapeutic intervention in type 2 diabetes