Intern/Student
Takeda/ University of Houston
I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, after completing a Master of Science in Energy at Texas A&M University. My main research skills include data analysis, modeling, optimization, and control of systems in the pharmaceutical industry.
My projects in my PhD career were in a hydride mode where I had to both produce PK/PD data from experiments in the university’s clinic as well as analyze and model them. I successfully managed to link experimental platting TK/TG data to an optical medical instrument provided by a company we collaborate with and allow drug personalization within hours and have the patent filled. In addition, I established the new state of the art of in vitro combination therapy with realistic PK for any number of antibiotics with different half-lives. Collaborated with Takeda on developing a QSP model for NIH DLBCL and CLL disease. I am currently collaborating with MdAnderson on a project in modeling and treatment prognostics from modified plate reader measurements for resistant Fungi, a PKPD system. My current project in the University of Houston includes the automatization of derived data both form plating and from our optical instrument in producing prognostics in the amount of antibiotic needed to treat multi-resistant bacteria (super-bug i.e AB PA ) and verified via a Hollow-fiber experiment which allows realistic PKPD results. My overall experience has taught me how to work under various environments of pressure and tight timelines and learned to efficiently collaborate with people from different working backgrounds. I have a dynamic personality with emphasis in the detail, self-motivated and eager for high quality work.
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