Personal Statement
I was the principal investigator of my NIH-supported academic lab for 10+ years before moving to the biotech industry. There at two mid-sized companies, I learned about therapeutics product development and wrote various documents, focusing on preclinical and clinical contract proposals. After learning how industry does it, I joined a government biomedical research institute as the program director for extramural sponsored projects. This suited me well since my scientific knowledge enabled me to help principal investigators develop and write proposals to win extramural funding. After 100+ proposals, and many successes, the government rules changed, so I took a position at a large government contracting company. Here, rather than researching and writing about cancer, vaccines, or infectious diseases, I researched the operations management and logistics of government biomedical research organizations and wrote technical contract proposals (and managed the awarded work). After one and a half years and a large win, I went back to science, supporting biomedical research laboratories in DoD with literature research, data analysis, and manuscript and proposal writing. At each position on this path—academia, government support contractor, some consulting along the way, and companies of all sizes—I researched, wrote, and marketed biomedical R&D. Now I offer these services.
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Finding someone who deeply understands your R&D and can market it for publication and to win funding is presumably why you are reading this. Am I that person? Call or email me to discuss the scope of your project, and your budget.
Peter D'Arpa, PhD
Education
George Washington University, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
PhD, Pharmacology
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Postdoctoral:
Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy
Department of Biological Chemistry
Faculty Appointments
Uniformed Services University, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacology