biomedwrite
as simple as possible but not simpler

Offered Capabilities

Experience

 

PROPOSALS

  • Experience writing R&D proposals spanning discovery to clinical trials and devices, vaccines, and therapeutics (small molecules and biologics).

  • 10+ years as a medical school faculty member, lecturer, and principal investigator of an NIH-funded molecular cell biology laboratory.

  • Scientific manager for two mid-sized biotechnology companies—responsible for proposal development for preclinical and clinical vaccines and therapeutics.

  • Director of sponsored projects office at a DoD biomedical research institute—submitted 100+ proposals (infectious diseases and brain injury)

  • Senior Principal Scientist and Program Manager for a Government contracting company where I wrote federal contract proposals to support biomedical research operations--analyzed RFPs and wrote technical, subcontracting, and management sections of contract proposals

  • Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator for a nonprofit company supporting military biomedical research in which I wrote numerous proposals for research funding

  • Grant reviewer for NIH, NSF, and CDMRP; reviewed and scored numerous proposals on topics such as diagnostics and therapeutics development, among others

  • Consultant for biotechnology start-ups and Government contracting companies

  • Wrote numerous proposals awarded from NIH, DoD, and CDMRP

Manuscripts

  • Primary or senior author of numerous peer-reviewed original research and review articles (PubMed record)

  • Book chapter editor

  • Book chapter author

  • Referee of numerous manuscripts for scientific journals

  • Recent active research and manuscript development

  • Broad R&D knowledge applicable to manuscript development: pharmacology, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, cancer, wound healing, infectious diseases, and systems biology

  • Product development experience applicable to manuscript development: vaccines and therapeutics (small molecules and biologics) preclinical and clinical development

  • Experience developing manuscripts starting from raw data or graphics

  • Editor for consistent usage of terms, precise logical flow, clarity, and impact

DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION

  • Published studies that include high dimensional data analysis and visualization

  • R programming language for statistical computing and graphics

    • Practical Machine Learning, 2020 (Johns Hopkins Univ., Coursera; Certificate)

    • Statistics with R Specialization (Duke Univ., Coursera)

      • Inferential Statistics, 2018 (5 weeks)

      • Introduction to Probability and Data, 2017 (5 weeks)

    • Data Science Specialization (Johns Hopkins Univ., Coursera)

      • Practical Machine Learning, 2015 (4 weeks)

      • Statistical Inference, 2015 (4 weeks)

      • Regression Models, 2015 (4 weeks)

      • Reproducible Research, 2015 (4 weeks)

      • Exploratory Data Analysis, 2014 (4 weeks)

      • Getting and Cleaning Data, 2014 (4 weeks)

      • The Data Scientist’s Toolbox, 2014 (4 weeks)

      • R Programming, 2014 (4 weeks)

    • Statistical Learning, 2014 (Stanford Univ., Open EdX)

Other Documents

  • Meeting minutes and summary reports

  • Physician's opinion piece published in a scientific journal

  • White papers for lobbying U.S. Congress

  • Web page content

  • Research marketing promotional materials: brochures, auto-play and manual slide presentations, and exhibition booth design

  • Graphics

writing/communication books & courses 

  • Writing in the Sciences (Stanford Univ., Coursera)

  • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

  • Houston, We Have a Narrative—WHY SCIENCE NEEDS STORY, by Randy Olson

  • How to Write Short, by Roy Peter Clark

  • Writing Tools, by Roy Peter Clark

  • The Art of Scientific Storytelling, by Rafael E. Luna

  • Writing Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion, by Michael D. C. Drout

  • Language A to Z, The Great Courses, by John McWhorter

  • Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft, by The Great Courses

  • Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

  • Made to Stick, by Chip Heath

  • On Writing, by Steven King

  • Stein on Writing, by Sol Stein

  • On Writing Well, by William Zinsser

OTHER Courses and training

  • Next Generation Diagnosis Summit (2012, 1-day course)

    • Smarter Studies: Boosting Your Omics and Biomarker Projects through an Efficient and Rigorous Study Design

    • Applications of Detection Theory in Diagnostics

  • Efficient and Rigorous Study Design FDA Clinical Investigator Training Course (2011, 3-day course)

  • Program Management Training – General Dynamics Information Technology (2011, 2-day course)

  • Contract Officer’s Representative/Grant Officer’s Representative Training—USAMRAA (2010, 2-day course)

  • Patent Bar Review – Patent Resources Group (2008, 6-day course).

  • Managing Technical Professionals – American Management Association (2005, 3-day course)